Background
Barocci 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.
