Jacopo Vignali - Artist Info

About Jacopo Vignali

  • Biography

    Jacopo Vignali was born September 5, 1592 in Pratovecchio, near Arezzo, and initially trained under Matteo Rosselli. Employed in his workshop from the turn of the seventeenth century, by 1616 Vignali had emerged as an autonomous artist. In his biography of Vignali, Giovanni Pagliarulo published important archival documents that the artist was employed by the convent of Santa Maria Novella in 1628, under the charge of Vincenzio Antifonti, the Florentine predicatore generale, to execute a series of portraits of illustrious gentlemen.

    He painted the ceiling fresco of the Love of the Fatherland and Jacob's dream for the Casa Buonarroti in Florence. In 1616 he entered the Accademia del Disegno in F...

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