Self-portrait, 1525-1530

The beheading of Spurius Cassius, fresco (1532-1535), Palazzo Pubblico, Siena.

Domenico di Pace Beccafumi (1486–1551) was an Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter active predominantly in Siena. He is considered one of the last undiluted representative of the Sienese school of painting. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2024x2395, 278 KB) Description: Title: de: Selbstporträt Technique: de: Tempera, Papier auf Holz Dimensions: de: 29,5 × 24 cm Country of origin: de: Italien Current location (city): de: Florenz Current location (gallery): de: Galleria degli Uffizi Other notes: Source: The... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2024x2395, 278 KB) Description: Title: de: Selbstporträt Technique: de: Tempera, Papier auf Holz Dimensions: de: 29,5 × 24 cm Country of origin: de: Italien Current location (city): de: Florenz Current location (gallery): de: Galleria degli Uffizi Other notes: Source: The... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2024x2479, 443 KB) Description: Title: de: Allegorischer Freskenzyklus (Politische Tugenden) aus dem Plazzo Pubblico in Siena, Szene: Die Enthauptung des Spurius Cassius Technique: de: Fresko Dimensions: Country of origin: de: Italien Current location (city): de: Siena Current location (gallery): de: Palazzo... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2024x2479, 443 KB) Description: Title: de: Allegorischer Freskenzyklus (Politische Tugenden) aus dem Plazzo Pubblico in Siena, Szene: Die Enthauptung des Spurius Cassius Technique: de: Fresko Dimensions: Country of origin: de: Italien Current location (city): de: Siena Current location (gallery): de: Palazzo... Spurius Cassius Vecellinus and Proculus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus, are believed to have discharged their duties as consuls the same year as the Battle of Salamis in Grece -- 480 BC. Diodorus Siculus (XI, I, 2) stated that their praetorship coincided with the archonship of Calliades in Athens. ... Fresco by Dionisius representing Saint Nicholas. ... Palazzo Pubblico The Palazzo Pubblico (town hall) is a palace in the city of Siena, Italy. ... This page is about Siena, Italy. ... // Events Tízoc, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan dies of poisoning. ... Events Russia, Reforming Synod of the metropolite Macaire, Orthodoxy: introduction of a calendar of the saints and an ecclesiastical law code ( Stoglav ) Major outbreak of the sweating sickness in England. ... In the traditional view, the Renaissance is understood as an historical age that was preceded by the Middle Ages and followed by the Reformation. ... Mannerism is the usual English term for an approach to all the arts, particularly painting but not exclusive to it, a reaction to the High Renaissance, emerging after the Sack of Rome in 1527 shook Renaissance confidence, humanism and rationality to their foundations, and even Religion had split apart. ... A painter is a person who paints woodwork, walls, etc. ... This page is about Siena, Italy. ... The Sienese School of painting flourished in Italy between the 13th and 15th centuries and for a time rivalled Florence, though it was more conservative, being inclined towards the decorative beauty and elegant grace of late Gothic art. ...

Biography

Domenico was born the son of Giacomo di Pace, a peasant who worked on the estate of Lorenzo Beccafumi. Seeing his talent for drawing, Lorenzo adopted him, and commended him to learn painting from Mecaro, a lesser Sienese artist. In 1509 he traveled to Rome, but soon returned to Siena, and while the Roman forays of two Sienese artists of roughly his generation (Il Sodoma and Peruzzi) had imbued them with elements of the Umbrian-Florentine Classical style, Beccafumi's style remains, in striking ways, provincial. In Siena, he painted religious pieces for churches and of mythological decorations for private patrons, only mildly influenced by the gestured Mannerist trends dominating neighboring Florence. There are medieval eccentricities, sometimes phantasmagoric, superfluous emotional detail and a misty non-linear, often jagged quality to his drawings, with primal tonality to his coloration that separates him from the classic Roman masters. 1509 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... (1525) Oil on canvas, 206 x 154 cm Galleria Palatina , Florence Il Sodoma (1477 - February 14, 1549?) was the name given to the Italian painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi (also wrongly spelled Razzi). ... Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (7 March 1481—6 January 1537) was an architect and painter, born at Siena and died at Rome. ... Mannerism is the term used to describe the artistic style that arose in mid-16th century. ...

Pavement of Duomo di Siena

In addition to painting, he also directed the celebrated pavement of the cathedral of Siena from 1517-1544; a task that took over a century and a half. The pavement shows vast designs in commesso work,- white marble, that is, engraved with the outlines of the subject in black, and having borders inlaid with rich patterns in many colours. From the year Beccafumi was engaged in continuing this pavement. He made very ingenious improvements in the technical processes employed, and laid down scenes from the stories of Ahab and Elijah, of Melchisedec[1], of Abraham[2] and of Moses[3]. He made a triumphal arch and an immense mechanical horse for the procession of the emperor Charles V on his entry into Siena. Duomo di Siena is the medieval cathedral of Siena, Italy. ... Duomo di Siena is the medieval cathedral of Siena, Italy. ... Events January 22 - Battle of Ridanieh. ... Events April 11 - Battle of Ceresole - French forces under the Comte dEnghien defeat Imperial forces under the Marques Del Vasto near Turin. ... Ahab or Achav (אַחְאָב Brother of the father, Standard Hebrew Aḥʼav, Tiberian Hebrew ʼAḥăʼāḇ, ʼAḫʼāḇ) was King of the province of Samaria in the greater Kingdom of Israel, and the son and successor of Omri (1 Kings 16:29-34). ... Elijah (אֱלִיָּהוּ Whose/my God is the Lord, Standard Hebrew Eliyyáhu, Tiberian Hebrew ʾĔliyyāhû), also Elias (NT Greek Ἠλίας), is a prophet of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. ... This article is in need of attention. ... It has been suggested that Abraham (Hebrew Bible) be merged into this article or section. ... Moses or Móshe (מֹשֶׁה, Standard Hebrew Móše, Tiberian Hebrew Mōšeh, Arabic موسى Mūsa, Spanish Moisés, Ethiopic ሙሴ Musse) was a son of Amram and his wife, Jochebed, a Levite. ... Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of the Catalonian-Aragon and Castile Crown. ...

Critical assessment and legacy

Compared to the equilibrated, geometric, and self-assured Florentine style, the Sienese style of painting, edges into a more irrational and emotionally-unbalanced world. Buildings are often transected, and perspectives awkward. The setting is often hallucinogenic; the colors, discordant. For example, in the Nativity (San Martino, Siena) hovering angels form an architectural hoop, figures enter from the shadows of a ruined arch. In his annunciation, the virgin resides in a world neither in day or dusk, she and the Angel Gabriel shine while the house is in shambles. In Christ in Limbo (Siena Pinacoteca), an atypically represented topic, Christ sways in contrapostos as he enters a netherworld of ruins and souls. S.J. Freedberg, compares his vibrant eccentric figures to those of the Florentine mannerist contemporary Rosso Fiorentino yet more "optical and fluid". While all the elements of the expected religious scenes are here, it is like a play in which all the actors have taken atypical costumes, and forgotten some of their lines. Mannerism is the term used to describe the artistic style that arose in mid-16th century. ... Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro by Rosso Fiorentino (c. ...

In Medieval Italy, Siena had been an artistic, economic, and political rival of Florence; but wars and natural disasters caused a decline by the 15th century. Beccafumi's style is among the last in a line of Sienese artists, a medieval believer of miracles awaking in Renaissance reality. This page is about Siena, Italy. ... Founded 59 BC as Florentia Region Tuscany Mayor Leonardo Domenici (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  102 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 356,000 almost 500,000 3,453/km² Time zone CET, UTC+1 Latitude Longitude 43°47 N 11°15 E www. ... (14th century - 15th century - 16th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500. ...

Partial anthology of works

• The Miraculous Communion of Saint Catherine of Siena (1513, Getty Museum)[4]
• Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Stigmata (1513, Getty Museum)[5]
• Trinity tryptich (1513, Pincoteca, Siena)[6]
• Marriage of St. Catherine (1514-15, Pinacoteca, Siena) [7]
• St. Paul (1515, Museo dell'Opere della Metropolitana, Siena)[8]
• Tanaquil (1519, National Gallery, London)[9]
• Marcia (1519, National Gallery, London)[10]
• Stigmatization of St. Catherine of Siena (1515, Pincoteca, Siena)[11]
• Self Portrait (1520)[12]
• St. Lucy (1521, Pincoteca, Siena)[13]
• The Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine (1521, Hermitage, St. Petersburg)[14]
• Frescoes (Bindi-Segardi Palace, Siena)
• Frescoes (Palazzo Publico, Siena)[15]
• Vision of St. Catherine of Sienna (1528, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK)
• The Baptism of Christ (1528, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK)
• The Nativity (Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA)
• Venus and Cupid with Vulcan (1528, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA)
• Holy Family with St. John (1530, Uffizi Florence)[16]
• Holy Family with Saint Anne , (private) [17]
• Escape of Clelia and the Roman Virgins (Uffizi Florence)
• Punishment of Dathan (Duomo, Pisa)
• Drawing for Christ in Limbo (Stolen)[18]
• Christ in Limbo (1535, Pinacoteca, Siena)
• Moses and the Golden Calf (1536-7, Duomo, Pisa)[19]
• Saint Bernard of Siena Preaching (1537, Louvre Museum, Paris)[20]
• Saint Anthony and the Miracle of the Mule (1537, Louvre Museum, Paris)[21]
• Saint Francis receives the stigmata (1537, Louvre Museum, Paris)[22]
• Fall of the Rebel Angels (1540s, Pinacoteca, Siena)[23]
• Birth of the Virgin (1543, Accademia, Siena)[24]
• Annunciation (1545-6, Saints Martino and Vittoria, Sarteano)[25]
• Coronation of the Virgin (1540s, Santo Spirito, Siena)
• Madonna with infant and St. John (1540, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome)[26]
• Holy Family with Angels (National Gallery, Washington, DC)[27]
• Holy Family and St. John (Alte Pinakotek, Munich, Germany)[28]
• Statues of Angels (1548-50, Presbytery Duomo di Siena)[29]
• Drawing of Abraham [30]
• St. Peter (woodcut, 1547, Cleveland Museum Art)[31]
• Angels drawing (1524-25, San Francisco)[32]

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References

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. Encyclopædia Britannica, the 11th edition The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911) is perhaps the most famous edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ...

• Painting in Italy 1500-1600, S.J. Freedberg, (Penguin History of Art, 2nd Edition, 1983).