Domenico Passignano (1559 – 17 May 1638)

• Born Domenico Cresti.
• Was an Italian painter.
• Cresti was born in Passignano, currently a frazione of Tavarnelle Val di Pesa about 30 km south of Florence.
• He was educated by the local Vallombrosan monks.
• He started his works in the stylized Tuscan manner, working with Giovanni Battista Naldini and Girolamo Macchietti.
• After travelling from Rome to Venice (1581–1589), he came under the influence of Tintoretto's style.
• He had traveled to Venice as an assistant to Federico Zuccari.
• Federico Zuccari had employed him previously in the completion of Vasari's unmemorable frescoes for the Florentine Duomo.
• In Florence, he painted frescoes of the Translation and Funeral of Saint Antoninus for the Cappella Salviati in San Marco and Preaching of John the Baptist for San Michele Visdomini.
• Among his pupils were the brothers Valore and Domenico Casini, Pietro Sorri, and Cesare Dandini. 

• Passignano died at Florence in 1638.

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