Giacomo Pacchiarotti
Giacomo Pacchiarotti, sometimes seen as Pacchiarotto (1474 – 1539 or 1540) was an Italian painter.
[edit] Life and Works
He was born in Siena, and worked there. Bernardino Fungai may have been his teacher; Pacchiarotti's style is influenced by Fungai, as well as Matteo di Giovanni, Perugino, and Signorelli.
A number of his paintings are in Siena.
He is recorded as having been a designer for pageants, and was active in the Sienese resistance against Florence.
One of his most important works is a tempera on panel representing the Madonna and Child with Saints, now in the Church of St. Margaret and Matthew in Ortignano Raggiolo, in the province of Arezzo.
[edit] 'Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper'
Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper is the title poem of a collection of the same name by Robert Browning, published in 1876. Based loosely on the painter's role in the Sienese resistance, it is a comic poem attacking Browning's critics.
