Jacopo or Giacomo Palma il Giovane - Iacopo Negretti (1548/50 – 14 October 1628),

• Was an Italian painter.
• Palma was born in Venice.
• He was known as Palma Giovane ("Young Palma").
• Born into a family of painters.
• In 1567 Guidobaldo II della Rovere, duke of Urbino, recognized Palma's talents, supporting him for four years and sending him to Rome, where he remained until about 1572.
• He was the great-nephew of the painter Palma Vecchio ("Old Palma").
• He was the son of Antonio Nigreti (1510/15-1575/85).
• After the death of Tintoretto in 1594, he remained one of the leading painters in the City of Venice.
• He was commissioned to complete Titian’s unfinished Pietà. 
• Among his followers was the Brescian painter, Camillo Rama.