Origins and apprentice

Girolamo Macchietti (c. 1535/1541-1592) was an Italian

Italy

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 painter active in Florence

Florence

Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

, working in a Mannerist

Mannerism

Mannerism is a period of European art that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it, but Northern Mannerism continued into the early 17th century throughout much of Europe...

 style. He was a pupil of Michele di Ridolfi. During 1556-62, worked as an assistant to Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect, who is famous today for his biographies of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.-Biography:...

 in the decoration of the Palazzo Vecchio

Palazzo Vecchio

The Palazzo Vecchio is the town hall of Florence, Italy. This massive, Romanesque, crenellated fortress-palace is among the most impressive town halls of Tuscany...

, where he worked with Mirabello Cavalori

Mirabello Cavalori

Mirabello Cavalori was an Italian painter of Mannerist style, active mainly in Florence.Cavalori was born in Salincorno, near Montefortino. He was a contemporary of Maso da San Friano and younger than Vasari. The latter painter employed Cavalori in the decoration of the Studiolo of Francesco I in...

. He participated in the Vasari-directed decoration of the Studiolo of Francesco I

Studiolo of Francesco I

The Studiolo was a small painting-encrusted barrel-vaulted room in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, commissioned by Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. It was completed for the duke from 1570-1572, by teams of artists under the supervision of Giorgio Vasari and the scholars Giovanni...

 with two canvases, one relating a Jason and Medea (1570) and the other a Baths of Pozzuoli (1572). He also painted an altarpiece on the Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence for Santa Maria Novella. In 1577, he completed a Gloria di San Lorenzo for Empoli

Empoli

Empoli is a town and comune in Tuscany, Italy, about 20 km southwest of Florence, to the south of the Arno in a plain formed by the latter river. The plain has been usable for agriculture since Roman times. The commune's territory becomes a hilly one as it departs from the river...

Cathedral. He traveled to Rome and spent two years in Spain (1587–1589). No works are recorded from these travels.

Works

• Pala Lioni, 1562-68, Florence, Villa Lioni-Michelozzi-Roti-Clavarino
• Epiphany, 1568, Florence, San Lorenzo
• Jason and Medea, 1570-72, Studiolo of Francisco I, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
• The baths of Pozzuoli, 1570-72, Studiolo of Francisco I, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
• Martyrdom of San Lorenzo, 1573, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
• Virgin's girdle, 1574, Santa Agata, Florence
• Apotheosis of San Lorenzo, 1577, Empoli Cathedral
• Allegory of Prudence, (Private Collection), traditionally attributed to Vasari until recently.
• Crucifixion, 1590, San Giovanni di Scopoli, Florence