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RICCIARELLI, DANIELE (1509-1566)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 290 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICCIARELLI, DANIELE (1509-1566) , See also:Italian artist, generally called, from the See also:place of his See also:birth, DANIELE DA See also:VOLTERRA, studied See also:painting under See also:Sodoma and See also:Peruzzi. Settling in See also:Rome, he received abundant encouragement. His See also:constant friend, See also:Michelangelo, recommended him on all possible occasions, and he was commissioned to beautify with See also:works of See also:art a See also:chapel in the See also:church of the Trinita, to paint in the See also:Farnese See also:Palace, to execute certain decorations in the''Palazzo de' See also:Medici at Navona, and to begin the See also:stucco See also:work and the pictures in the See also:Hall of the See also:Kings. Towards the See also:close of his See also:life he turned his See also:attention to statuary. His last work was a See also:bronze See also:horse intended' for an equestrian statue of See also:Henry II. of See also:France. He died in 1566. The See also:principal extant works of Ricciarelli are at Rome. These are a " St See also:John the Baptist " in the picture See also:gallery of the Capitol, a " Saviour bearing the See also:Cross " in the Palazzo Rospigliosi, and a " Descent from the Cross," his masterpiece, in the church of Trinita de Monti. There is also an " See also:Elijah " at Volterra.

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