Giorgio Picchi

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Giorgio Picchi il Giovane (active 1586-1599) was an Italian painter active in Rome, Cremona, Rimini, Urbino, and Urbania. He was either a pupil or follower of Federico Barocci.^[1]

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Born in Castel Durante, present-day Urbania, he trained with his father (Giogio Picchi il Vecchio), a profitable maiolica painter and producer. Along with Sebastiano Sabatini, called il Mafori, Picchi il Vecchio was active in Castel Durante and left his active factory of maiolica to his son.^[2]

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Maiolica is tin-glazed pottery decorated in colours on a white background. Italian maiolica dating from the Renaissance period is the most renowned. When depicting historical and mythical scenes, these works were known as istoriato wares. By the late 15th century, several places, mainly small cities in northern and central Italy, were producing sophisticated pieces for a luxury market in Italy and beyond. In France maiolica developed as faience, in the Netherlands and England as delftware, and in Mexico as talavera. In English the spelling was anglicised to "majolica" but the pronunciation remained usually the same with the long "i" as in 'kite'.

His son, however, soon pursued painting on canvas and fresco. He was one of the team of painters employed to paint the Scala Santa, the palace of San Giovanni Laterano, and the Vatican Library in Rome. He painted for the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento in Cremona. In Rimini, he painted for the church of San Martino and Sant'Agostino. He painted in the no longer extant cloister of the Franciscans in Urbania; a number of his canvases (1586) for the adjacent church of San Francesco still are in place. He died around the age of 50.^[3]

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References

↑ The History of Painting in Italy, Volume 1, by Luigi Lanzi, page 447.
↑ Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da S. Pietro sino ai nostril, by Gaetano Moroni, published in Venice, (1857): page 266.
↑ Delle antichità picene, by Giuseppe Colucci (Abate), page 49.

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[1] The History of Painting in Italy, Volume 1, by Luigi Lanzi, page 447.

[2] Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da S. Pietro sino ai nostril, by Gaetano Moroni, published in Venice, (1857): page 266.

[3] Delle antichità picene, by Giuseppe Colucci (Abate), page 49.