Beccafumi domenico biography
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Domenico Giacomo di Pace
In Siena’s rivalry with Florence, the Sienese painters, like Beccafumi embraced a mystic presence, where the Florentines leaned towards naturalism.
Beccafumi was considered one of the last painters to fully embrace the Sienese School.
Beccafumi domenico biography
Born Giacomo di Pace, he took the surname of his father’s estate owner and later patron, Lorenzo Beccafumi. After an apprenticeship that Lorenzo connected the young Giacomo to, he went on to explore the art of Michelangelo (1475 – 1564) and Raphael (1483 – 1520) in Rome.
Beccafumi also traveled through Florence where he was exposed to Leonardo da Vinci’s (1452 – 1519) skillful use of Chiaroscuro (contrast through Light and Dark).
From this influence of the Italian masters, Beccafumi infused his elegant and emotional Sienese style with that of Mannerism’s abstractions of the period.
Of his early works in Siena, he painted with his contemporary Il Sodoma (1477 – 1549) on the façade of the Palazzo Borghese in 1512.
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