11 Facts About Jacopo Ligozzi

Jacopo Ligozzi was an Italian painter, illustrator, designer, and miniaturist.

Jacopo Ligozzi served Francesco I, Ferdinando I, Cosimo II and Ferdinando II, Grand Dukes of Tuscany.

Jacopo Ligozzi was named director of the grand-ducal Galleria dei Lavori, a workshop providing designs for artworks made mainly for export: embroidered textiles and for the newly popular medium of pietre dure, mosaics of semiprecious stones and colored marbles.

Jacopo Ligozzi painted frescoes depicting episodes from the life of St Francis of Assisi for the cloister of the Ognissanti.

Jacopo Ligozzi painted a canvas of St Raymond resuscitating a Child for Santa Maria Novella and Martyrdom of St Dorothea for the church of the Conventuali at Pescia.

Jacopo Ligozzi's altarpieces depict crowds in staged positions, robbed of emotion; the paintings breathe an academic staleness that is typical of Florentine painting of the age.

Jacopo Ligozzi is known best for his depictions of fauna and flora, which reflect the nascent scientific pursuits of the Medici.

Jacopo Ligozzi was commissioned to create some of the depictions found in the encyclopedic visual catalogue of the plant collections of Bolognese Ulisse Aldrovandi.

Jacopo Ligozzi can be described as the Audubon of late Renaissance Florence.

Jacopo Ligozzi is credited with bringing the lusher color-palette of Verona to Florence.

Jacopo Ligozzi was influential among some subsequent Florentines including Bartolomeo Bimbi.