Art, literature & historyDomenico di Pace Beccafumi
1486–1551
Selected artwork
The Holy Family with Angels
c. 1545/1550
National Gallery of Art
Other names (72)
Baccafume, B. Beccafume, Becafuma, Becafumi, Beccafiume, Beccafumi, Becca Fumi, Beccafumi senese, d. beccafumi, dit le Micarino Dominique Beccafumi, dom. beccafumi, Domenico Beccafumi, Domenico, detto Micarino Beccafumi, Domenico di Giacomo di Pace, Domenico di Giacomo di Pace Beccafumi, Domenico di Giuliano da Parma, Domenico di Pace, domenico, gen. mecherino beccafumi, Domenico Mecarino, Domenico Mecharino, Domenico Mecherino, Domenico Mecuccio, Domenico Micarino, Dominico Becafami, Dominique Beccafumi ^Idit^R Micarin de Sienne, gen. meccherino domenico beccafumi, Macarino da Siena, Maccarino, Maccarino da Siena, Maccharin da Siena, Maccharino da Siena, Maccherino da Siena, Macharin da Siena, Macharino, Macharino da Siena, Macherino, Macherino da Siena, Mecarine de Siena, Mecarini, Mecarino, Mecarino Beccafumi, Mecarino da Siena, Meccarini, Meccarino, Meccarino da Siena, Meccharin da Siena, Meccharino, Meccharino da Siena, Meccharino di Siena, Meccherino, Mecharin da Sciena, Mecharin da Siena, Mecharino, Mecharino da Siena, Mecherin da Siena, Mecherino, Mecherino Mecarino, Mecuccio, Mecuccio Beccafumi, Menarino, Mencharino, Micaran da Siena, Micarini, Micarino, Miccherino, Michele da Sciena, Michelin da Siena, Michelino da Siena, Micherino, Micherino da Siena, Micherino di Siena, Minerino da Siena
Biography
Domenico di Pace Beccafumi (1486 – May 18, 1551) was an Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter active predominantly in Siena. He is considered one of the last undiluted representatives of the Sienese school of painting.
Domenico was born in Montaperti, near Siena, the son of Giacomo di Pace, a peasant who worked on the estate of Lorenzo Beccafumi. Seeing his talent for drawing, Lorenzo adopted him, and commended him to learn ofpaint rom Mechero, a lesser Sienese artist. In 1509 he travelled to Rome, where he learned from the artists who had just done their first work in the Vatican, but soon returned to Siena.
However, while the Roman forays of two Sienese artists of roughly his generation (Il Sodoma and Peruzzi) had imbued them with elements of the Umbrian-Florentine Classical style, Beccafumi's style remains, in striking ways, provincial. In Siena, he painted religious pieces for churches and mythological decorations for private patrons, only mildly influenced by the gestured Mannerist trends dominating the neighbouring Florentine school.
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Documented holdings of works attributed to Domenico di Pace Beccafumi. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art7 recorded works
- The Cleveland Museum of Art4 recorded works
- National Gallery of Art3 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Rennes1 recorded work