Stefano de pieri biography definition
Stefano de pieri biography definition
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Stefano Pieri
Italian painter
Stefano Pieri (December 26, 1544 – January 13, 1629) was an early 17th-century Florentine painter.
Baptismal documents discovered in 2017 revealed that Pieri was born to Piero Pieri-Rossi, a descendent of Parma's nobility working as a guard of the Florence Customs House, and living in the neighborhood of San Jacopo sopr'Arno.[1]
He trained under Agnolo Bronzino before approaching Giorgio Vasari and enrolling at the Accademia del Diseno on 16 July 1564.[1] In that year, he participated with many other young artists in the funeral of Michelangelo; works of art from that event remain in many Florentine galleries today.
His painting of Michelangelo beside Duke Cosimo de' Medici gained special praise from Vasari.[2] He assisted Vasari in painting the monumental Last Judgement on the cupola of the Florence Cathedral in the late 1570s.[3]
He later followed Federico Zuccari to Rome to aid in the interior decorat