Jacopo Torni (1476–1526)

• Also known as Jacobo Fiorentin, L'Indaco, and Jacopo dell'Indaco.
• Was an Italian (Florentine) painter, sculptor and architect.
• He was a student of Domenico Ghirlandaio, and the brother of painter Francesco Torni.

• Jacopo assisted Michelangelo in painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.

• According to Giorgio Vasari he “lived in very close intimacy with Michelangelo”.

• Jacopo is known to have collaborated with the painter Bernardino Pinturicchio. 

• He settled and worked in Spain before 1520.

• In Spain, L’Indaco was called Jacopo Fiorentino.

• He married a Spanish woman named Juana de Velasco, the daughter of a noted woodcarver.

• He died around 1526 in Villena.

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