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Jacopo Peri
Jacopo Peri , 1561-1633, Italian composer and singer. Dafne (c.1597), perhaps the first opera, was composed by both Peri and Jacopo Corsi. The librettist, Ottavio Rinuccini, also wrote Euridice, which Peri and Caccini set to music (1600). The music for this opera was performed at the wedding of ... Read more
Jacopo Bassano
Jacopo Bassano , c.1515-1592, Venetian painter, whose original name was Jacopo, or Giacomo, da Ponte, b. Bassano, Italy. Bassano first studied with his father, Francesco da Ponte, and then went to Venice. There he was influenced by Titian and Lorenzo Lotto, but he soon evolved a more turbulent manne... Read more
Jacopo Sansovino
Jacopo Sansovino , 1486-1570, Italian sculptor and architect of the Renaissance. His surname was taken in place of his own, Tatti, as homage to the Florentine sculptor Andrea Sansovino , under whom he was apprenticed. After early years devoted to sculpture, he was architect of several buildings in ... Read more
Jacopo della Quercia
Jacopo della Quercia , c.1374-1438, Italian sculptor. His work shows the transition from medieval to Renaissance art. He is especially noted for his imposing allegorical figures for the Gaia Fountain in Siena. About 1425 he began to decorate the main portal of San Petronio, Bologna, with scenes from... Read more
Jacopo de' Barbari
Jacopo de' Barbari , c.1440-1516, Germano-Dutch painter and engraver, b. Venice. Barbari was a major link between North European and Italian art; his and Dürer's works reveal a mutual influence. After 1500 he was court painter to rulers in principalities in Germany and the Netherlands, painting... Read more
Jacopo da Pontormo
Jacopo da Pontormo , 1494-1556, Florentine painter, one of the creators of mannerism . His real name was Jacopo Carrucci. He studied with Andrea del Sarto , Leonardo da Vinci , Mariotto Albertinelli , and Piero di Cosimo . While studying with Sarto, Pontormo met Il Rosso , who became his main ... Read more
Bellini
Bellini , illustrious family of Venetian painters of the Renaissance. Jacopo Bellini , c.1400-1470, was a pupil of Gentile da Fabriano. He worked in Padua, Verona, Ferrara, and Venice. Many of his greatest paintings, including the enormous Crucifixion for the Cathedral of Verona, have disappeared... Read more
Jacopone da Todi
Jacopone da Todi , 1230?-1306, Italian religious poet, whose name was originally Jacopo Benedetti. After the sudden death of his wife, he renounced (c.1268) his career as an advocate, gave his goods to the poor, and after 10 years of penance became a Franciscan tertiary. Jacopone was excommunicated ... Read more
Bartolomeo Ammanati
Bartolomeo Ammanati , 1511-92, Italian sculptor and architect. He studied under Bandinelli in Florence and assisted Jacopo Sansovino in his work on the Library of St. Mark's, Venice. Ammanati, whose style was greatly influenced by Michelangelo's Medici tombs, made a colossal statue of Hercules, at P... Read more
Orcagna
Orcagna or Arcagnolo , c.1308-1368, Florentine painter, sculptor, and architect, whose original name was Andrea di Cione. He was one of the leading artists of his day. According to Vasari, writing more than 200 years later, Orcagna studied sculpture under Andrea Pisano. In 1343 he enrolled in St... Read more

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Jacopo Sansovino
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Jacopo Sansovino The Italian artist Jacopo Sansovino (1486-1570) executed sculpture and architecture...and Florence in the crucial early decades of the 16th century, Jacopo Sansovino became the man of destiny for Venetian architecture...
Jacopo Bassano
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Jacopo Bassano , c.1515-1592, Venetian painter, whose original name was Jacopo, or Giacomo, da Ponte, b. Bassano, Italy...depict animals, farmhouses, and landscapes. Jacopo's works include Jacob's Return to Canaan...
Jacopo della Quercia
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Jacopo della Quercia Jacopo della Quercia (1374-1438), an Italian sculptor and architect...sculptural innovator of the Early Renaissance. Documentation concerning Jacopo della Quercia is scant. He was born in Siena. In 1401 he entered...
Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti; c. 1518–1594)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World TINTORETTO (Jacopo Robusti; c. 1518 – 1594) TINTORETTO (Jacopo Robusti; c. 1518 – 1594), Italian painter. Jacopo Tintoretto was easily the most prolific painter in late-sixteenth-century Venice. The son of a Venetian...
Jacopo Della Quercia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Jacopo Della Quercia see Quercia, Jacopo della .
Jacopo Carucci
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Jacopo Carucci see Pontormo, Jacopo da .
Jacopo Tatti
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Jacopo Tatti see Sansovino, Jacopo .
Jacopo Peri
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Jacopo Peri , 1561-1633, Italian composer and singer. Dafne (c.1597), perhaps the first opera, was composed by both Peri and Jacopo Corsi. The librettist, Ottavio Rinuccini, also wrote Euridice, which Peri...
Peri, Jacopo
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Peri, Jacopo (1561–1633) Italian composer. His musical drama Dafne (1597) is generally regarded as the first opera. His next opera, Euridice (1600), is the earliest complete opera.
Pontormo, Jacopo Carucci
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Pontormo, Jacopo Carucci (1494–1557) Italian painter. He is thought to have painted Vertumnus and Pomona (1520–21...

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Bassano, Jacopo (Jacopo da Ponte)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists Bassano, Jacopo (Jacopo da Ponte) ( c. 1515–92). Italian painter, the most...Bassano, about 65 km (40 miles) north-west of Venice. Jacopo is regarded as a member of the Venetian School and among his contemporaries...
Peri, Jacopo
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Peri, Jacopo ( b Rome or Florence, 1561; d Florence, 1633). It. composer, pupil...Probably one of group of poets and musicians assoc. in Florence with Jacopo Corsi and Count Bardi in last quarter of 16th cent. (see Camerata...
Sansovino, Jacopo
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists Sansovino, Jacopo ( Jacopo Tatti ) (1486–1570). Florentine sculptor and architect, active mainly in Venice. He trained under Andrea Sansovino , whose name he adopted as a sign of his admiration. In 1505/6 he followed Andrea...
Jacopo della Quercia
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Jacopo della Quercia. See Quercia .
Sadoleto, Jacopo
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Sadoleto, Jacopo (1477–1547), cardinal from 1536. In 1537 he became a member of the special commission for the reform of the Church...
Sansovino, Jacopo d'Antonio Tatti
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Sansovino, Jacopo d'Antonio Tatti, called (1486–1570). Florentine architect and sculptor, he spent most of his working life in...
Corsi, Jacopo
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Corsi, Jacopo ( b Florence, 1561; d Florence, 1602). It. nobleman in whose house in Florence the Camerata met, as also in Bardi's...
Barbari, Jacopo de'
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Barbari, Jacopo de' ( b ?Venice, active c. 1497; d Netherlands, 1511/16). Venetian painter and printmaker. His early career is obscure...
Casanova, Giovanni Jacopo
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Casanova, Giovanni Jacopo (1725–98), Italian adventurer. He is famous for his memoirs describing his sexual encounters and other exploits.
Quercia, Jacopo della
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Quercia, Jacopo della ( b Siena, c. 1374; d Siena...Piero di Angelo ( Quercia, from which Jacopo takes his name, is a district of Siena...the northern manner and suggests that Jacopo had knowledge of work done in the circle...

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MIX MASTER; THE ETRO AESTHETIC? TAKE ONE PART HISTORY, TWO PARTS TRAVEL, SPICE LIBERALLY, THEN SHAKE VIGOROUSLY.(Jacopo Etro)
Magazine article from: Daily News Record; 1/10/2005; ; 700+ words ; Byline: STEPHANIE EPIRO MILAN -- Jacopo Etro has recently acquired an African...really stinks, doesn't it?" says Jacopo, as he sits on the floor amid a pile...s unwearability makes 42-year-old Jacopo no less delighted with his acquisition...
La sfortuna di Jacopo Piccinino: Storia dei bracceschi in Italia 1423-1465.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 12/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; Serena Ferente. La sfortuna di Jacopo Piccinino: Storia dei bracceschi in Italia...To begin, it actually fills in a gap: Jacopo Piccinino was one of the most important...produced by the Milanese propaganda. Jacopo Piccinino was murdered in 1465 by order...
Il principe e il mercante nella Toscana del Quattrocento: Il Magnifico Signore di Piombino Jacopo III Appiani e le aziende Maschiani di Pisa.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Quattrocento: Il Magnifico Signore di Piombino Jacopo III Appiani e le aziende Maschiani di...Piombino and its Appiani lords, especially Jacopo III (ca. 1440-74), offers a welcome...to secure their small state. It is Jacopo III's rule of Piombino, however, that...
Jacopo Leaping.(poetry)(Poem)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 5/1/2008; ; 543 words ; Jacopo Leaping how you jumped up in the sky with naked feet above magic springs higher...destiny abated for a whole hour-- father I am your equal for a whole hour jump Jacopo, rise up, rise above the clouds and your playmates Umberto Piersanti was...
Picture of the Week: The Adoration of the Magi (c1560). Jacopo Bassano (c1510-92) Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham University.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 7/8/2000; 700+ words ; Jacopo de Ponte, called Bassano after his home town in Northern Italy, was the...also a painter of pastoral landscapes, committed suicide in the same year Jacopo died. Some of his paintings were completed by Leandro, who enjoyed success...
Paradise (c.1580) ; GREAT WORKS ++ Jacopo Tintoretto ++ Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/27/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...pursuit of perfection has achieved perfect pictorial tedium, which is exactly what one might fear. This picture of Paradise, by Jacopo Tintoretto, is the great exception. It is filled with clouds and crowds of air-born figures in the traditional manner...
Teksid Aluminum Announces the Resignation of Mr. Jacopo Tozzi as CFO and Deputy General Manager.
PR Newswire; 2/4/2004; 394 words ; TURIN, Italy, February 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Teksid Aluminum announces the resignation of Mr. Jacopo Tozzi for personal reasons. Mr. Tozzi will leave the company after completion and preparation of regulatory as well as financial...
Illicit arousal: the erotic subtext of Tintoretto's Tarquin and Lucretia.(Jacopo Tintoretto)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Lucretia theme, however, those created by Tintoretto stand apart, and it is to his paintings that we now turn. The Venetian Jacopo Tintoretto painted two versions of the rape of Lucretia: one is now in the Art Institute of Chicago (Fig. 1) and the other...
Cedar Lake nabs Naharin & Godani.(Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet contracts with Ohad Naharin, Jacopo Godani)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine; 1/1/2007; 700+ words ; ...dancers will perform the full-length work this June in NYC. But that's not all. This month, in their Chelsea home, the company premieres a work by well-known European choreographer Jacopo Godani. See www.cedarlakedance.com.
Il Libro secondo di Francesco e Jacopo Dal Ponte.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...workshop, Francesco, to his gifted son, Jacopo. The accounts were kept by double-entry...formation and central part of the career of Jacopo and the fortunes of the workshop as reconstructed...if surviving). Muraro then considers Jacopo's rapport with the culture of his country...