Girolamo Macchietti (c. 1535/1541-1592)

• Was an Italian painter active in Florence.
• He was a pupil of Michele di Ridolfo.
• During the years 1556-1562, worked as an assistant to Giorgio Vasari in the decoration of the Palazzo Vecchio, where he worked with Mirabello Cavalori.
• He participated in the Vasari-directed decoration of the Studiolo of Francesco I 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 Cathedral.
• He traveled to Rome and spent two years in Spain (1587–1589).
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