Giacomo Pacchiarotti

Virgin and Child by Giacomo Pacchiarotti, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena

Giacomo Pacchiarotti, sometimes seen as Pacchiarotto (1474 – 1539 or 1540) was an Italian painter.

Life and Works

He was born in Siena, and worked there. Bernardino Fungai may have been his teacher; Pacchiarotti's style is influenced by Fungai, as well as Matteo di Giovanni, Perugino, and Signorelli.

A number of his paintings are in Siena.

He is recorded as having been a designer for pageants, and was active in the Sienese resistance against Florence.

One of his most important works is a tempera on panel representing the Madonna and Child with Saints, now in the Church of St. Margaret and Matthew in Ortignano Raggiolo, in the province of Arezzo.

'Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper'

Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper is the title poem of a collection of the same name by Robert Browning, published in 1876. Based loosely on the painter's role in the Sienese resistance, it is a comic poem attacking Browning's critics.

External links

• Artnet bio
• Italian Paintings: Sienese and Central Italian Schools, a collection catalog containing information about Pacchiarotti and his works (see index; plates 82-83).