Jacopo Torni
Illustration — Hercules and the Nemean Lion, oil on panel painting attributed to Jacopo Torni Jacopo Torni (1476–1526), also known as Jacobo Fiorentin, L'Indaco, and Jacopo dell'Indaco, was an Italian (Florentine) painter, sculptor and architect. He was a student of Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449–1494), and the brother of painter Francesco Torni (1492–1560). Jacopo assisted Michelangelo in painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, and, according to Giorgio Vasari in his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, “lived in very close intimacy with Michelangelo” (Jonathan Foster translation).
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Jacopo Torni
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- 1476 · Florence.
- Died
- 1526 · Villena.
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- Republic of Florence
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- sculptor · architect · painter
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Illustration — Hercules and the Nemean Lion, oil on panel painting attributed to Jacopo Torni Jacopo Torni (1476–1526), also known as Jacobo Fiorentin, L'Indaco, and Jacopo dell'Indaco, was an Italian (Florentine) painter, sculptor and architect. He was a student of Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449–1494), and the brother of painter Francesco Torni (1492–1560). Jacopo assisted Michelangelo in painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, and, according to Giorgio Vasari in his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, “lived in very close intimacy with Michelangelo” (Jonathan Foster translation).
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Jacopo is known to have collaborated with the painter Bernardino Pinturicchio (ca. He settled and worked in Spain before 1520 and died in Villena. Some of his works as architect and sculptor remain in Granada and Murcia. He invented a plaster formula resistant to mold, which entered the Italian building and fresco tradition.
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Jacopo Torni was born on 1 January 1476.
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Jacopo Torni died on 27 January 1526.
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The authorities additionally record the headings Jacobo Torni, L'Indaco, Jacopo da Firenze, Jacobo, L'Indaco Torni and Jacobo Florentino. One child is recorded: Lázaro de Velasco. Other recorded relations include Juan López de Velasco.
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