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| attributed to Jacopo Siculo (Giacomo Santoro da Giuliana) Sibyls and Prophets ca. 1525 vault fresco Chiesa di Santissima Trinità dei Monti, Rome |
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| attributed to Jacopo Siculo (Giacomo Santoro da Giuliana) Sibyls and Prophets (detail) ca. 1525 vault fresco Chiesa di Santissima Trinità dei Monti, Rome |
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| attributed to Jacopo Siculo (Giacomo Santoro da Giuliana) Sibyls and Prophets (detail) ca. 1525 vault fresco Chiesa di Santissima Trinità dei Monti, Rome |
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| attributed to Jacopo Siculo (Giacomo Santoro da Giuliana) Sibyls and Prophets (detail) ca. 1525 vault fresco Chiesa di Santissima Trinità dei Monti, Rome |
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| attributed to Jacopo Siculo (Giacomo Santoro da Giuliana) Sibyls and Prophets (detail) ca. 1525 vault fresco Chiesa di Santissima Trinità dei Monti, Rome |
Giacomo Santoro da Giuliana, more commonly known as Jacopo Siculo (1490-1544) was so-called because of his origins in Sicily. He is first documented in Rome in 1519, working under Baldassare Peruzzi. Jacopo was still in Rome in early 1527, and probably left after the sack of the city by Imperial troops later that year. He subsequently settled in Spoleto, where a number of frescoes and panel paintings from the 1530s and early 1540s survive in regional churches and museums.
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| Daniele da Volterra after drawings by Michelangelo Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (detail) 1555 fresco Chiesa di Santissima Trinità dei Monti, Rome |
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| Daniele da Volterra after drawings by Michelangelo Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (detail) 1555 fresco Chiesa di Santissima Trinità dei Monti, Rome |
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| Daniele da Volterra after drawings by Michelangelo Assumption of the Virgin 1555 fresco Chiesa di Santissima Trinità dei Monti, Rome |
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| Daniele da Volterra after drawings by Michelangelo Assumption of the Virgin (detail) 1555 fresco Chiesa di Santissima Trinità dei Monti, Rome |
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| Daniele da Volterra after drawings by Michelangelo Assumption of the Virgin (detail) 1555 fresco Chiesa di Santissima Trinità dei Monti, Rome |
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| Daniele da Volterra after drawings by Michelangelo Assumption of the Virgin (detail) 1555 fresco Chiesa di Santissima Trinità dei Monti, Rome |
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| Daniele da Volterra after drawings by Michelangelo Assumption of the Virgin (detail) 1555 fresco Chiesa di Santissima Trinità dei Monti, Rome |
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| Daniele da Volterra after drawings by Michelangelo Assumption of the Virgin (detail) 1555 fresco Chiesa di Santissima Trinità dei Monti, Rome |
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| Daniele da Volterra after drawings by Michelangelo Assumption of the Virgin (detail) 1555 fresco Chiesa di Santissima Trinità dei Monti, Rome |
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| Daniele da Volterra after drawings by Michelangelo Assumption of the Virgin (detail) (figure at right in pink cloak is a portrait of Daniele's friend and mentor Michelangelo) 1555 fresco Chiesa di Santissima Trinità dei Monti, Rome |
Daniele da Volterra (ca. 1509-1566) – One of the most gifted of the Roman painters closely influenced by Michelangelo. Born in Volterra, but probably trained under Sodoma in Siena, Daniele came to Rome ca. 1536, soon finding employment as an executant for Perino del Vaga. After the death of Sebastiano Veneziano in 1547, Daniele became Michelangelo's 'surrogate', not only transcribing the aged master's sculptural manner in paint, but actually working from sketches supplied by Michelangelo.
– excerpted and adapted from the Yale Dictionary of Art and Artists by Erika Langmuir and Norbert Lynton (2000)
According to Vasari, "Daniele was an orderly and excellent man, but so intent on the studies of art, that he gave little thought to the other circumstances of his life. He was a melancholy person, and very solitary; and he died at about the age of fifty-seven."