Jacobo Pacchiarotto

Who is Jacobo Pacchiarotto?

Jacopo Pacchiarotto was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in the early decades of the 16th century in Siena. He fled to France where he joined Rosso Fiorentino in the work at Fontainebleau. He may be the Girolamo di Pacchia mentioned by Vasari in his chapter on il Sodoma. he painted a St. Catherine and St. Catherine visits the body of Agnes of Montepulciano now in the Pinacoteca of Siena. He painted frescoes on the Birth of the Virgin and the Annunciation for the church of San Bernardino.