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Domenico di Giacomo di Pace, called Beccafumi, from the name of his protector.
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Domenico Beccafumi
Italian painter (1486–1551)
Domenico di Pace Beccafumi (1486 – May 18, 1551) was an Italian Renaissance-Manneristpainter active predominantly in Siena.
He is considered one of the last undiluted representatives of the Sienese school of painting.
Biography
Domenico was born in Montaperti, near Siena, the son of Giacomo di Pace, a peasant who worked on the estate of Lorenzo Beccafumi.
Artist: Domenico Beccafumi (um - ) Art style: Mannerism Title: Christ in Limbo (c) Location: Siena, Pinacoteca.Seeing his talent for drawing, Lorenzo adopted him, and commended him to learn painting from Mechero, a lesser Sienese artist.[1] In 1509 he travelled to Rome, where he learned from the artists who had just done their first work in the Vatican,[2] but soon returned to Siena.
However, 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 piec