Jacopo da Empoli

Training under Maso da San Friano is recorded. The recorded working language is Italian. Places of work recorded in the authority are Florence. Works named in the authority record are The Virgin Appearing to Saint Luke and Saint Yves, Annunciation, Four ages of Woman and the Written Law, Michelangelo presents to Leo X the plans for San Lorenzo, Still Life with game and fruit and Still Life with game. Work by Jacopo da Empoli is recorded in the collections of Städel Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museo del Prado, Art Institute of Chicago and National Gallery of Canada.

• Name — Jacopo Chimenti da Empoli • Birth Name — Jacopo Chimenti • Birthplace — Florence • Died — 30 September 1640 • Field — Painting • Movement — Counter-Mannerism • Illustration — Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, San Lorenzo, Florence

On 30 April 1551, Jacopo was born in Florence as Jacopo Chimenti; he later became known after Empoli, the birthplace of his father. Jacopo worked mostly in his native city. He apprenticed under Maso da San Friano. Like his contemporary in Counter-Maniera (Counter-Mannerism), Santi di Tito, he moved into a style often more crisp, less contorted, and less crowded than mannerist predecessors like Vasari. He collaborated with Alessandro Tiarini in some projects. Jacopo's younger brother, Domenico Chimenti, born in Empoli, was also a painter. Jacopo took on many pupils, including Felice Ficherelli, Giovanni Battista Brazzè (Il Bigio), Giovanni Battista Vanni, and Virgilio Zaballi. After the 1620s, working in a thematic often shunned by Florentine painters, Jacopo completed a series of exceptional still-life paintings. On 30 September 1640, at the age of 89, Jacopo died.

Around 1600, Jacopo created a pair of drawings that seem to show the same figure from two different vantage points, such as the left and right eyes of an observer. In 1859, the images were rediscovered by Alexander Crum Brown, who suggested that they were intended to create a stereoscopic image. The drawings might have been done to complete a commission for Giambattista della Porta to be used in a book on optical illusions called De refractione optices parte libri novem (1593). Precise measurements of the drawings have been made that demonstrate that the pair of drawings are not perfectly stereoscopic, with significant parts actually pseudoscopic, implying that any stereoscopic effects were accidental.

• Madonna in Glory with Saint Luke and Saint Ives (1579) – Louvre, Paris • Sacrifice of Isaac (1590s) – Oil on copper, 32 x 25 cm, Uffizi, Florence • Susanna and the Elders (1600) – Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna • Sant'Eligio (1614) – Uffizi, Florence • Carlo Borromeo and the Rospigliosi Family (1613) – San Domenico, Pistoia • Still Life with Games (1620s) – Oil on canvas, 114 x 152 cm, Private collection • Judgement of Midas (1624) – Pistoia • Saint Ives, Protector of Widows and Orphans – Palatine Gallery, Florence • Adoration of Shepherds (attributed) – • Preaching of John the Baptist – San Niccolò Oltrarno, Florence • Michelangelo presents his model of San Lorenzo to Leo X (1617–1619) – Casa Buonarroti, Florence • The Wedding of Caterina de Medici to Henry II • Drunkedness of Noah – Uffizi Gallery, Florence • Saint Clair accepts the veil (vows) (1620) – Caen, France • Final Judgement – • Pala della Concezione – San Bartolomeo • "Three Marys At Tomb" – Blanton Art Museum, Austin, Texas