Jacopo Coppi
Jacopo Coppi, also called Giacomo Coppi or "'Jacopo del Meglio'" ("the Best") (Peretola, 1546 1591) was an Italian painter, mainly active in Florence and Rome in a Mannerist style. Other sources call him Giacinto Coppi. • Illustration — Judith with decapitated Holofernes • Illustration — The Visitation
Also recorded as Giacomo Coppi · Jacopo Del Meglio · Del Meglio Coppi · Giacomo del Meglio Coppi
Jacopo Coppi
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- 1523 · Peretola.
- Died
- 1591 · Florence.
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- painter
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Jacopo Coppi, also called Giacomo Coppi or "'Jacopo del Meglio'" ("the Best") (Peretola, 1546 1591) was an Italian painter, mainly active in Florence and Rome in a Mannerist style. Other sources call him Giacinto Coppi. • Illustration — Judith with decapitated Holofernes • Illustration — The Visitation
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He was one of the team of painters under Giorgio Vasari engaged in the decoration of the Studiolo of Francesco I de' Medici in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. For the room, he depicted the Invention of Gunpowder and the Family of Darius before Alexander the Great. • Illustration — Invention of Gunpowder • Illustration — Family of Darius before Alexander the Great Some of the sources dispute the identity of Coppi and Meglio. He is said to have painted in Rome and Bologna. Among his works are frescoes (1577) for the tribune of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome; a painting of Ecce Homo for the church of Santa Croce in Florence, and a canvas of the Redeemer (1579) for the church of San Salvatore in Bologna.
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- 1.Cita web https://www.aadfi.it/accademico/coppi-jacopo-del-meglio/ Archivio accademici AADFI
- 2.Gottardo. Dizionario biografico universale. Editore Libraio della Real Casa, Milan. 1907.
- 3.Reale Galleria di Firenze illustrata: Ritratti di pittori, volume 4, by Galleria degli Uffizi, page 160-162.
- 4.Reale Galleria di Firenze illustrata: Ritratti di pittori. 4, By Galleria degli Uffizi, Real Galleria di Firenze, Page 160-164; Caterina Spada, Il miracolo del crocifisso di Beirut nella pala di Jacopo Coppi, in Il Carrobbio, Rivista di studi culturali, anno XV, ed. Luigi Parma, Bologna 1989, pp.325-333, ISSN 0392-3347 BBCC
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