Bible Encyclopedias
Conte, Jacopino Del

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

a Florentine painter, was born in 1510, and studied under Andrea del Sarto. His principal pictures in Rome are, St. John Preaching and The Descent from the Cross, in San Giovanni Decollato; The Dead Christ and St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata, at the Cappuccini a Monte Cavallo. He died at Rome in 1598. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.