online website builder

© Copyright 2019 Pavel - All Rights Reserved.

Federico Barocci (1535-1612)

• Was an Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker.
• His original name was Federico Fiori.
• He was nicknamed Il Baroccio.
• His work was highly esteemed and influential, and foreshadows the Baroque of Rubens.
• He was born at Urbino, Duchy of Urbino.
• Federico received his earliest apprenticeship with his father, Ambrogio Barocci.
• He was then apprenticed with the painter Battista Franco in Urbino.
• In 1548 he came to Rome, where he was worked in the pre-eminent studio of the day, that of the Mannerist painters, Taddeo and Federico Zuccari.
• Next