Jacopo di Giovanni di Francesco - Jacone (1495-1554)

• Was an Italian painter.
• Born in Florence in 1495.
• He entered the workshop of Andrea del Sarto as a boy, remaining there until the death of the master, in January  1521.
• Giorgio Vasari informs us that Jacone in his youth made many paintings of "Our Women" in Florence, and many of these were sent to France by Florentine merchants.
• Contrary to Vasari's thoughts, Jacone great passion and interest in novelties led him in 1524, together with Bachiacca, to go to Rome to study the numerous facades frescoed by Maturino and Polidoro da Caravaggio.
• On his return to Florence he became friends with Aristotile da Sangallo, with Tribolo and again with Bachiacca in 1525 he created the Triumphal Arch, ordered by the Compagnia dell'Orciuolo, in San Felice in Piazza.
• Following the plague that raged in Florence in 1527, Jacone fled Florence to move to Cortona.
• Returning from Cortona he approached Pontormo, in fact he worked in Florence and in the countryside for the Capponi, Pontormo's regular patrons.
• He was certainly not a conformist, he loved his freedom of speech, action and thought, not submitting to both the power of certain Florentine nobility and the religious power.
• Jacopo di Giovanni di Francesco - Jacone died on May 24, 1544, in the house he owned in Florence, in Via Coda Rimessa.
• His last known painting is dated after 1540.

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