Jacopo da Empoli

Jacopo da Empoli (1551–1640), born Jacopo Chimenti in Florence, was an Italian painter associated with the Florentine Reformist style. Trained under Maso da San Friano, he developed a manner akin to Santi di Tito, favoring compositions that were sharper, less crowded, and more restrained than those of earlier Mannerists such as Vasari. Although he spent most of his career in Florence, he occasionally collaborated with Alessandro Tiarini. His younger brother, Domenico Chimenti, was also active as a painter. Empoli taught several pupils, including Felice Ficherelli, Giovanni Battista Brazzè (Il Bigio), Giovanni Battista Vanni, and Virgilio Zaballi. In the later part of his career, particularly after the 1620s, he produced a remarkable series of still lifes—an uncommon subject for Florentine artists of the period.