Jacopo Palma The Younger

Plats: Venice

Död: 1628

Biografi:

Jacopo Palma the Younger (ca. 1548 – 1628) was an Italian painter from Venice and a notable exponent of the Venetian school. He was born in Venice and was the great-nephew of the painter Palma Vecchio. He was born into a family of painters and was the son of Antonio Nigreti, a minor painter who was himself the pupil of the elder Palma's workshop foreman Bonifacio de' Pitati. In 1567, he was recognized for his talents by Guidobaldo II della Rovere, duke of Urbino, who supported him for four years and sent him to Rome. After his return to Venice, he adopted the mannerisms of Tintoretto and became Venice's dominant artist after Tintoretto's death in 1594. He received numerous commissions in the area of Bergamo and in Central Europe, most prominently from the connoisseur emperor Rudolph II in Prague. He was interred in the Basilica di San Giovanni e Paolo, a traditional burial place of the doges.