DANIELE DA VOLTERRA - The Assumption. Fresco in the Rovere Chapel in the Church of the Trinità dei Monti. The last figure on the right, in the act of pointing to the Assumption, is Michelangelo - Rome.
DANIELE da VOLTERRA (DANIELE RICCIARELLI). - Painter and sculptor, b. at Volterra ca. 1509, d. at Rome on 4 April 1566. His first pictorial education, attested by Vasari and above all by the youthful painting of Justice (Volterra, picture gallery), took place in the school of Sodoma and Peruzzi. Having gone to Rome at a very young age, he was a pupil of Perin del Vaga and his assistant in the chapel of the Crucifix in S. Marcello, whose decoration he carried to completion.
In contact with the Roman artistic milieu, he felt deeply the influence of Michelangelo even while welcoming into his art Raphaelesque motifs and accents, as can be seen in the very beautiful frieze with the Stories of Fabius Maximus (Rome, Palazzo Massimo), uneven in tone and still full of reminiscences of Sodoma and Beccafumi. Between 1541 and '46, D. da V. frescoed with Stories of the Cross the Orsini chapel in the church of the Trinità dei Monti in Rome: of it there remains today only a Deposition - very badly preserved - in which the art of D. da V. reaches its highest expression within the sphere of an intelligent and profound spiritual and formal adherence to the world of Michelangelo. In the same church he executed an Assumption (the only painting by his hand in the decoration of the Della Rovere chapel, entirely carried out by pupils), a less felt and labored work. The small panel in the Uffizi with the Massacre of the Innocents, signed by him, if in the receding of the planes and the rigorous balancing of the masses it suggests rather Raphael, in the sculptural power of the individual groups it is always profoundly Michelangelesque. By order of Paul IV, D. da V. clothed the nudes in Michelangelo's Last Judgment, whence he was called "Braghettone". Michelangelesque also as a sculptor, the only sculptural works of his that remain to us are the vigorous bronze bust of Buonarroti and the elegant stucco decorations of the Sala Regia in the Vatican.
Bibliography6 worksG. Vasari, Vite dei più eccellenti pittori, scultori, et architetti, ed. Milanesi, VII, Florence 1881, pp. 35 ff., 49 ff.; L. Lanzi, Storia
BIBL.: G. Vasari, Vite dei più eccellenti pittori, scultori, et architetti, ed. Milanesi, VII, Florence 1881, pp. 35 ff., 49 ff.; L. Lanzi, Storia pittorica dell'Italia, II, Bassano 1796, p. 103; Venturi, IX, 6, p. 249 ff.; H. Voss, Die Malerei der Spätrenaissance in Rom und Florenz, I, Berlin 1920, pp. 120 ff.; M. L. Mez, D. da V., in Bollettino d'arte, 27 (1933), p. 459 ff.; W. Stechow, Ricciarelli, D. da V., in Thieme-Becker, XXVIII, p. 257 ff. (with ample bibliography).
Grassi, Luigi. “Daniele da Volterra (Daniele Ricciarelli).” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, coll. 1153–1154. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/daniele-da-volterra-daniele-ricciarelli.
MLA
Grassi, Luigi. “Daniele da Volterra (Daniele Ricciarelli).” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, coll. 1153–1154. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/daniele-da-volterra-daniele-ricciarelli.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec4_daniele_da_volterra_daniele_ri,
author = {Grassi, Luigi},
title = {Daniele da Volterra (Daniele Ricciarelli)},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {IV},
pages = {1153--1154},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1950},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/daniele-da-volterra-daniele-ricciarelli}
}
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