Jacopo Coppi

Jacopo Coppi, also called Giacomo Coppi[1] or "'Jacopo del Meglio'" ("the Best") (Peretola, 1546 – 1591) was an Italian painter, mainly active in Florence and Rome in a Mannerist style.

[3] He was one of the team of painters under Giorgio Vasari engaged in the decoration of the Studiolo of Francesco I de' Medici in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.

For the room, he depicted the Invention of Gunpowder and the Family of Darius before Alexander the Great.

[4] Among his works are frescoes (1577) for the tribune of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome; a painting of Ecce Homo for the church of Santa Croce in Florence, and a canvas of the Redeemer (1579) for the church of San Salvatore in Bologna.

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