Jacopo da Empoli

Jacopo da Empoli (30 April 1551 – 30 September 1640), also known as Jacopo Chimenti, was an Italian Florentine Reformist painter.

Jacopo took on many pupils, including Felice Ficherelli, Giovanni Battista Brazzè (Il Bigio), Giovanni Battista Vanni, and Virgilio Zaballi.

After the 1620s, working in a thematic often shunned by Florentine painters, Jacopo completed a series of exceptional still-life paintings.

On 30 September 1640, at the age of 89, Jacopo died.

The drawings might have been done to complete a commission for Giambattista della Porta to be used in a book on optical illusions called De refractione optices parte libri novem (1593).

Precise measurements of the drawings have been made that demonstrate that the pair of drawings are not perfectly stereoscopic, with significant parts actually pseudoscopic, implying that any stereoscopic effects were accidental.

Selected works Madonna in Glory with Saint Luke and Saint Ives (1579) – Louvre, Paris Sacrifice of Isaac (1590s) – Oil on copper, 32 x 25 cm, Uffizi, Florence Susanna and the Elders (1600) – Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Sant'Eligio (1614) – Uffizi, Florence Carlo Borromeo and the Rospigliosi Family (1613) – San Domenico, Pistoia Still Life with Games (1620s) – Oil on canvas, 114 x 152 cm, Private collection Judgement of Midas (1624) – Pistoia Saint Ives, Protector of Widows and Orphans – Palatine Gallery, Florence Adoration of Shepherds (attributed) – Preaching of John the Baptist – San Niccolò Oltrarno, Florence Michelangelo presents his model of San Lorenzo to Leo X (1617–1619) – Casa Buonarroti, Florence The Wedding of Caterina de Medici to Henry II Drunkedness of Noah – Uffizi Gallery, Florence Saint Clair accepts the veil (vows) (1620) – Caen, France Final Judgement – Pala della Concezione – San Bartolomeo "Three Marys At Tomb" – Blanton Art Museum, Austin, Texas