Girolamo Muziano

Girolamo Muziano or Mutiani (c. 1532 – 1592), was an Italian painter, one of the most prominent artists active in Rome in the mid-to-late sixteenth century.

Muziano painted religious and historical subjects in a style based largely on Michelangelo, giving great prominence to the monumental anatomy of his figures, even in works depicting ascetic saints.

The painting was later placed in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore above Muziano's tomb; it was afterwards transferred to the Quirinal Palace,[2] and now is in the Vatican Pinacoteca.

[3] Its techniques of spatial organization and narrative composition are more typical of the High Renaissance than of Muziano's Mannerist contemporaries.

Muziano also designed mosaics for the Gregorian Chapel in the basilica, and was responsible for re-founding the Academy of St Luke (Accademia di San Luca) in Rome (1577).