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Federico Barocci (also written Barozzi) (c. 1535 – 30 September 1612) was an Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker. His original name was Federico Fiori, and he was nicknamed Il Baroccio. His work was highly esteemed and influential, and foreshadows the Baroque of Rubens.
Federico Barocci was born in the humanist centre of Urbino, in central eastern Italy, around 1533. The son of a watchmaker, he flourished in a town that had become one of the great cultural centres of the Renaissance, producing artists such as Raphael.
Federico Barocci was a leading painter of the central Italian school in the last decades of the 16th century and an important precursor of the Baroque style. Barocci studied in Urbino with Battista Franco, a follower of Michelangelo’s maniera. Although he made two visits to Rome—one in about 1550.
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Federico Barocci detto il Fiori è stato un pittore italiano. Il suo stile elegante lo fa ritenere un importante esponente del Manierismo italiano e dell'arte della Controriforma. È considerato uno dei precursori del Barocco.
This exhibition, which follows the exhibition held in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Uffizi Gallery from 18th December 2015 to 3rd April 2016, focuses on the drawings of Federico...
Barocci, The Madonna of the Cherries. The canvas depicting the Holy Family in a moment of rest during the Flight to Egypt was painted by Federico Barocci for his friend the art collector Simonetto Anastagi di Perugia, to whom he sent the work in 1573.
A painting by the Italian Mannerist artist Federico Barocci depicting Saint Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata on Mount La Verna. Learn about the artist, the subject, and the style of this canvas from The Met's collection.
