Jacopo da Empoli Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist ca. 1575 oil on panel Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Jacopo da Empoli Three Marys at the Tomb ca. 1575-80 oil on panel Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas Jacopo da Empoli St Francis in Prayer 1599 oil on canvas Museo Civico, Prato Jacopo da Empoli Susanna and the Elders 1600 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna "Jacopo Chimenti da Empoli had his first schooling under Maso da San Friano, and chose to consider him a link backward to an earlier Sartesque style. Closer at hand, he found support for his tendencies to react from Maniera in the paintings which Santi [di Tito] published in the mid seventies. . . . Jacopo's subsequent development was almost rectilinear, proceeding mainly from the threshold Santi had supplied. He insisted more than Santi on an objective mode of seeing and on the techniques, of luminous colour and relieving chiaroscuro in particular, to describe it; at the same time he made the effect of his vision and description more legible by simplifying them. His simplification works not only in description but in whole designs, influenced in this certainly by Santi, and as in Santi also in some way by the intellectual abstractness of Maniera – or of Counter-Maniera; at the same time this tendency is at least as much allied to the models of lucidity and order which both master and pupil studied in the early Cinquecento classical style. Even when Jacopo insists too heavily on simplifying, making rigid schemata of design, they do not impede but rather work to dignify the existential virtue that he gives his forms. The conjunction between intellectualizing order and stressed naturalism that he makes in his style towards 1600 (Susanna, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum [directly above]) is peculiarly Florentine: at the end of the sixteenth century it seems that he is reviving, more than an early-sixteenth-century, a Florentine fifteenth-century point of view." – S.J. Freedberg from Painting in Italy - 1500 to 1600 in the Pelican History of Art series (London, 1971) Jacopo da Empoli Maria de' Medici's marriage by proxy to Henry IV of France 1600 oil on canvas Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence Jacopo da Empoli Portrait of a Noblewoman dressed in Mourning ca. 1600 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago Jacopo da Empoli Portrait of a Woman as St Margaret 1600 oil on canvas private collection Jacopo da Empoli St Julian the Hospitaller ca. 1610-20 oil on canvas private collection Jacopo da Empoli Calling of Matthew ca. 1620 oil on canvas Chiesa di Santa Maria al Pignone, Florence Jacopo da Empoli Kitchen Still Life 1624 oil on canvas Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence Jacopo da Empoli Kitchen Still Life ca. 1625 oil on canvas Pushkin Museum, Moscow Jacopo da Empoli Assumption of the Virgin before 1640 oil on panel Hermitage, Saint Petersburg Jacopo da Empoli Supper at Emmaus before 1640 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg Jacopo da Empoli Martyrdom of St Sebastian before 1640 oil on canvas Basilica di San Lorenzo, Florence