Jacopo Torni

Who was Jacopo Torni?

Jacopo Torni, also known as Jacobo Fiorentin, L'Indaco, and Jacopo dell'Indaco, was an Italian painter. He was a student of Domenico Ghirlandaio, and the brother of painter Francesco Torni. Jacopo assisted Michelangelo in painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, and, according to Giorgio Vasari in his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, “lived in very close intimicy with Michelangelo”. Jacopo is known to have collaborated with the painter Bernardino Pinturicchio. He died in Villena.