Francesco Bacchiacca. Francesco d'Ubertino Verdi, called Bachiacca.
He is also known as Francesco Ubertini, il Bacchiacca. He was an Italian painter of the Renaissance whose work is characteristic of the Florentine Mannerist style.
Bachiacca was born and baptized in Florence on 1 March 1494 and died there on 5 October 1557. Bachiacca belonged to a family of at least five, and possibly as many as eight artists.
His father Ubertino di Bartolomeo was a goldsmith, his older brother Bartolomeo d'Ubertino Verdi was a painter, and his younger brother Antonio d'Ubertino Verdi, who also called himself Bachiacca, was both an embroiderer and painter. Francesco's son Carlo di Francesco Verdi painted and Antonio's son Bartolomeo d'Antonio Verdi worked as an embroiderer.
This latter generation probably continued to produce paintings and embroideries after Bachiacca's death and until the Verdi family extinguished about the year 1600. Bachiacca apprenticed in Perugino's Florentine studio, and by 1515 began to collaborate with Andrea del Sarto, Jacopo Pontormo and Francesco Granacci on the decoration of cassone, spalliera, and other painted furnishings for the bedroom of Pierfrancesco Borgherini and Margherita Acciauoli. In 1523, he again participated with Andrea del Sarto, Franciabigio and Pontormo in the decoration of the antechamber of Giovanni Benintendi. While he established a reputation as a painter of predell
He is also known as Francesco Ubertini, il Bacchiacca. He was an Italian painter of the Renaissance whose work is characteristic of the Florentine Mannerist style.
Bachiacca was born and baptized in Florence on 1 March 1494 and died there on 5 October 1557. Bachiacca belonged to a family of at least five, and possibly as many as eight artists.
His father Ubertino di Bartolomeo was a goldsmith, his older brother Bartolomeo d'Ubertino Verdi was a painter, and his younger brother Antonio d'Ubertino Verdi, who also called himself Bachiacca, was both an embroiderer and painter. Francesco's son Carlo di Francesco Verdi painted and Antonio's son Bartolomeo d'Antonio Verdi worked as an embroiderer.
This latter generation probably continued to produce paintings and embroideries after Bachiacca's death and until the Verdi family extinguished about the year 1600. Bachiacca apprenticed in Perugino's Florentine studio, and by 1515 began to collaborate with Andrea del Sarto, Jacopo Pontormo and Francesco Granacci on the decoration of cassone, spalliera, and other painted furnishings for the bedroom of Pierfrancesco Borgherini and Margherita Acciauoli. In 1523, he again participated with Andrea del Sarto, Franciabigio and Pontormo in the decoration of the antechamber of Giovanni Benintendi. While he established a reputation as a painter of predell
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