Background
Federigo Barocci was born in Urbino in 1528. He received his earliest apprenticeship with his father, Ambrogio Barocci, a sculptor of some local eminence.
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Federico Barocci was an Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker. His original name was Federico Fiori, and he was nicknamed Il Baroccio, which still in northwestern Italian dialects means a two-wheel cart drawn by oxen. His work was highly esteemed and influential, and foreshadows the Baroque of Rubens.
Career
He made two trips to Rome but spent most of his life in Urbino. He is distinguished from other Mannerists by a more coloristic style, with fluid light and delicate tonal transitions, derived from Correggio and exemplified in the Madonna del Popolo (Uffizi Gallery, Florence) and in the Entombment (Chiesa della Croce, Sinigaglia); by a greater reliance upon visual experience; and by a new feeling for pictorial space which he expressed through a freer organization of the composition in depth, as can be seen in his Martyrdom of San Vitale (Brera, Milan). In sentiment, he is simple and deeply religious, as for example, in the Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Vatican, Rome), tending frequently toward the visionary and ecstatic, as in the Crucifixion (St. Lorenzo, Genoa). Barocci's greatest influence was on the painters of the later Baroque period and of the 18th century. He died in Urbino in 1612.
