Daniele da Volterra

Daniele da Volterra ^[2] ( Italian: Daniele da Volterra , real name Daniele Ricciarelli) ( 1509 , Volterra , Tuscany - April 4, 1566 , Rome ) - Italian painter and sculptor.

It is assumed that Daniele da Volterra studied with Sodoma . Later he worked with Michelangelo in Rome and, thanks to his patronage, became his successor and curator of works in the Vatican . Michelangelo helped him with his advice and probably provided da Volterra with his sketches, for example, for the masterpiece Daniele da Volterra "Descent from the Cross" in the church of Trinita dei Monti in Rome.

Other famous paintings by da Volterra include Justice in the Palace of Priorities of Volterra and Bethlehem Beating of Babies in Uffizi , Florence . The Louvre holds a two-sided painting by Daniele da Volterra on the same plot: “ David cuts off the head of Goliath ” , written on a large slate panel. Images on both sides depict events that are separated by only one instant, like two separate frames in a movie.

Daniele da Volterra lost his post under Pope Julia III , devoted himself to sculpture and later moved to Florence, then returned to Rome, where, on the order of Pope Pius IV, he “covered the unsightly nudity” of The Last Judgment by Michelangelo, for which he received the ironic nickname Braghettone ("The Scribbler").

From the sculptural works of da Volterra, a statue of Cleopatra was preserved at the fountain in the corridor of the Roman Belvedere . From France, da Volterra received an order for the equestrian statue of Henry II , but only managed to complete for her the horse on which the sculptural Louis XIII later sat in the Palais Royal in Paris .