Jacopo Ligozzi

Born in Verona in 1547, dead in Florence in1627, he was an Italian painter, illustrator, designer, and miniaturist. Invited to come to Florence and became one of the court artists for the Medici. Upon the death of Giorgio Vasari in 1574, he became head of the Accademia e Compagnia delle Arti del Disegno, the officially patronized guild of artists, he served Francesco I, Ferdinando I, Cosimo II and Ferdinando II, Grand Dukes of Tuscany. He was named director of the grand-ducal Galleria dei Lavori, a workshop providing designs for artworks made mainly for export: embroidered textiles and for the newly popular medium of pietre dure, mosaics of semiprecious stones and colored marbles.
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I add this : He's been fired because of havind offered a religious piece to a monastery without asking any authorization from his Medici patron. From this error, he had no other choice to earn a living but to devote himself to religious paintings that he can sell to the numerous religious institutions...

This hanjie is, of course, inspired by the series, about Florence artists, created by Serban, thanks to him !

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