![]() ![]() The pavement shows vast designs in commesso work-white marble, that is, engraved with the outlines of the subject in black, and having borders inlaid with rich patterns in many colours. ![]() In addition to painting, he also directed the celebrated pavement of the cathedral of Siena from 1517 to 1544, a task that took over a century and a half. There are medieval eccentricities, sometimes phantasmagoric, superfluous emotional detail and a misty non-linear, often jagged quality to his drawings, with primal tonality to his coloration that separates him from the classic Roman masters. In Siena, he painted religious pieces for churches and of mythological decorations for private patrons, only mildly influenced by the gestured Mannerist trends dominating the neighboring Florentine school. However, while the Roman forays of two Sienese artists of roughly his generation ( Il Sodoma and Peruzzi) had imbued them with elements of the Umbrian-Florentine Classical style, Beccafumi's style remains, in striking ways, provincial. In 1509 he traveled to Rome, where he learned from the artists who had just done their first work in the Vatican, but soon returned to Siena. Seeing his talent for drawing, Lorenzo adopted him, and commended him to learn painting from Mechero, a lesser Sienese artist. He is considered one of the last undiluted representatives of the Sienese school of painting.ĭomenico was born in Montaperti, near Siena, the son of Giacomo di Pace, a peasant who worked on the estate of Lorenzo Beccafumi. Domenico di Pace Beccafumi (1486 – May 18, 1551) was an Italian Renaissance- Mannerist painter active predominantly in Siena.
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