Bartolomeo panciatichi biography of christopher

He was born in France , the illegitimate son of the merchant Bartolomeo, who owned the main Florentine trade company working in France , at Lyon. Later he studied in Lyon and Padua , leaving the family's commercial activities to his relatives. He was a friend of Jean de Vauzelles, abbot of Montrottier , who translated into French the religious works of Pietro Aretino ; Panciatichi himself sent the first translated copies to the Italian author in Venice in In he moved to Florence, where, on 20 January , he became a member of the Accademia degli Umidi.

In duke Cosimo I de' Medici appointed him as consul to France.

Artist: Agnolo di Cosimo (), known as Bronzino, worked in Florence when the city's art was dominated by two great names: the Medici and Michelangelo.

Here Panciatichi became attracted to the Protestant movement , and later brought to Florence several books which had been forbidden by the Catholic church. He was one of the 35 people arrested as heretics in Florence in December January ; Panciatichi was later freed in exchange of a ransom. After promising he would no more deal with religious matters, he subsequently restarted his political career under the Medici aegis: in he became senator, in he was commissar in Pisa and, in , in Pistoia.

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This attribution leads to the assertion that it is the Christ by Bronzino painted for Bartolomeo and Lucrezia Panciatichi, cited by Giorgio.

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