for the town in Umbria, see Passignano sul Trasimeno

Passignano sul Trasimeno

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Domenico Passignano (1559 – 17 May 1638), born Cresti or Crespi, was an Italian

Italy

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  painter of a late-Renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

 or Contra-Maniera (Counter-Mannerism

Counter-Mannerism

Counter-Mannerism is a general art historical term for a trend in painting, printmaking and interior decoration that originated as a sub-category of Mannerism. Contra-Maniera followed the general worldliness of the second generation of Mannerist painters...

) style that emerged in Florence towards the end of the 16th century.

Biography

Crespi was born in Passignano, currently a frazione of Tavarnelle Val di Pesa

Tavarnelle Val di Pesa

Tavarnelle Val di Pesa is a comune in the Province of Florence in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 25 km south of Florence.-Main sights:...

 near Florence

Florence

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. He started his works in the stylized Tuscan manner, working with Giovanni Battista Naldini

Giovanni Battista Naldini

Giovanni Battista Naldini was an Italian painter of a late-Mannerism in Florence.His first apprenticeship was in the studio of Jacopo Pontormo. He went from Rome for a number of months following 1560, and was recruited to work for Giorgio Vasari in 1562...

 and Girolamo Macchietti

Girolamo Macchietti

-Origins and apprentice:Girolamo Macchietti was an Italian painter active in Florence, working in a Mannerist style. He was a pupil of Michele di Ridolfi. During 1556-62, worked as an assistant to Giorgio Vasari in the decoration of the Palazzo Vecchio, where he worked with Mirabello Cavalori...

. After travelling from Rome to Venice

Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...

 (1581–1589) where he was influenced by Tintoretto

Tintoretto

Tintoretto , real name Jacopo Comin, was a Venetian painter and a notable exponent of the Renaissance school. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed Il Furioso...

's style. He had traveled to Venice as an assistant to Federico Zuccari

Federico Zuccari

Federico Zuccari, also known as Federigo Zuccaro , was an Italian Mannerist painter and architect, active both in Italy and abroad.-Biography:Zuccari was born at Sant'Angelo in Vado, near Urbino ....

, who had employed him previously in the completion of Vasari's unmemorable frescoes for the Florentine Duomo.

He was known to paint with great speed; however, as to be quick he used less paint, most of his works have been severely damaged by time. As a result of this gift, he was nicknamed Passa Ognuno - a possible play upon the name of his birthplace. It is thought that Passignano was derived from it.

In Florence, he painted fresco

Fresco

Fresco is any of several related mural painting types, executed on plaster on walls or ceilings. The word fresco comes from the Greek word affresca which derives from the Latin word for "fresh". Frescoes first developed in the ancient world and continued to be popular through the Renaissance...

es of the Translation and Funeral of Saint Antoninus (1589) for the Cappella Salviati in San Marco and Preaching of John the Baptist (1590) for San Michele Visdomini

San Michele Visdomini

San Michele Visdomini is a church in the centre of Florence, central Italy. The original church of San Michele was demolished in 1368 to make space for the tribunes of the new Cathedral of Florence. Soon it was rebuilt in its present location to a design by Giovanni di Lapo Ghini, with later facade...

. He painted a Nativity (1594) for Lucca

Lucca

Lucca is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, situated on the river Serchio in a fertile plainnear the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Lucca...

's Duomo di San Martino

Duomo di San Martino

The Cathedral of St Martin is a church in Lucca, Italy. It was begun in 1063 by Bishop Anselm .-Description:Of the original structure, the great apse with its tall columnar arcades and the fine campanile remain...

. Other works can be found in church of San Frediano in Pisa

Pisa

Pisa is a city in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the right bank of the mouth of the River Arno on the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa...

 as fresco

Fresco

Fresco is any of several related mural painting types, executed on plaster on walls or ceilings. The word fresco comes from the Greek word affresca which derives from the Latin word for "fresh". Frescoes first developed in the ancient world and continued to be popular through the Renaissance...

 and in Uffizi Gallery

Uffizi

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. He painted famous portraits of Galileo and Michelangelo

Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art...

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Passignano died at Florence in 1638.

Selected works

• Ganymede and Jupiter, University Oklahoma Museum of Art http://www.ou.edu/fjjma/collections/european/passignano_ganymede.html
• The Allegory of Chastity, http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/PD--12066449/SP--A/IGID--1501604/The_Allegory_of_Chastity.htm?sOrig=CRT&sOrigId=45005&ui=3E9EB715F68D4DDE823C0DE0860120E8
• Wedding Banquet of Grand Duke Ferdinand I de Medici, http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/PD--11726886/SP--A/IGID--1352411/Wedding_banquet_of_Grand_Duke_Ferdinand_I_of_Tuscany_1549_1600)_1590.htm?sOrig=CRT&sOrigId=45005&ui=3E9EB715F68D4DDE823C0DE0860120E8#