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PACCHIA, GIROLAMO DEL

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PACCHIA, See also:GIROLAMO DEL , and PACCHIAROTTO (or PACCHIAROTTI), JACOPO, two painters of the Sienese school. One or other of them produced some See also:good pictures, which used to pass as the performance of See also:Perugino; reclaimed from Perugino, they were assigned to Pacchiarotto; now it is sufficiently settled that the good See also:works are by G. del Pacchia, while nothing of Pacchiarotto's own doing transcends mediocrity. The mythical Pacchiarotto who worked actively at See also:Fontainebleau has no authenticity. Girolamo del Pacchia, son of a Hungarian See also:cannon-founder, was See also:born, probably in See also:Siena, in 1477. Having joined a turbulent See also:club named the Bardotti he disappeared from Siena in 1535, when the club was dispersed, and nothing of a later date is known about him. His most celebrated See also:work is a See also:fresco of the "Nativity of the Virgin," in the See also:chapel of S Bernardino, Siena, graceful and See also:tender, with a certain artificiality. Another renowned fresco, in the See also:church of S Caterina, represents that See also:saint on her visit to St See also:Agnes of See also:Montepulciano, who, having just expired, raises her See also:foot by See also:miracle. In the See also:National See also:Gallery of See also:London there is a " Virgin and See also:Child." The forms of G. del Pacchia are See also:fuller than those of Perugino (his See also:principal See also:model of See also:style appears to have been in reality See also:Franciabigio) ; the See also:drawing is not always unexceptionable; the See also:female heads have sweetness and beauty of feature, and some of the colouring has noticeable force. Pacchiarotto was born in Siena in 1474. In 1530 he took See also:part in the See also:conspiracy of the Libertini and Popolani, and in 1534 he joined the Bardotti. He had to hide for his See also:life in 1535, and was concealed by the Observantine fathers in a See also:tomb in the church of S Giovanni. He was stuffed in See also:close to a new-buried See also:corpse, and got covered with See also:vermin and dreadfully exhausted by the close of the second See also:day.

After a while he resumed work; he was exiled in 1539, but recalled in the following See also:

year, and in that year or soon afterwards he died. Among the few extant works with which he is still credited is an " See also:Assumption of the Virgin," in the See also:Carmine of Siena. Other works rather dubiously attributed to him are in Siena, Buonconvento, See also:Florence, See also:Rome and London.

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