Vincenzo Rustici
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Precise details about the life and career of Vincenzo Rustici are scarce.
He was born in Siena in 1556 in an artistic family of architects and artists originally from Piacenza who had settled in Siena in the 16th century.[2] His father Lorenzo, known as Il Rustico or Lorenzo di Cristoforo Rustici, was a prominent Renaissance painter of stucco and grotesque decorations.[3] His older brother Cristoforo, also known as Il Rusticcone (1552 - 1641), was also a painter.[4]
After his sister Aurelia married the eminent Sienese painter Alessandro Casolani in 1582, Rustici probably started working in the workshop of his brother-in-law. He may have executed in the studio works destined for a less demanding clientele. Upon the death of Casolani in 1606, he completed Casolani’s Resurrection of Lazarus in the Basilica of Saint Francis in Siena.[5] Alessandro Casolani himself was influenced by the work of Domenico Beccafumi.[4]
His son Francesco trained with him and was one of the leading followers of Caravaggio working in Siena.[6] In the period during which his son Francesco worked in his workshop, Vincenzo Rustici's hand was initially difficult to distinguish from that of his son.[7]
In December 1616, Vincenzo Rustici was commissioned to repaint three of the original fresco’s of Pinturicchio in the Chapel of Saint John the Baptist in the Siena Cathedral.[8]
