Domenico Puligo
Place Born
FlorenceBio
One of the Florentine artists featured in Giorgio Vasaris tome of Italian art, The Lives of Artists, Puligo painted in a style amongst contemporaries like Ghirlandaio (1483 1561), and Andrea del Sarto (1486 1531). This influence was of course due largely to his training under Ghirlandaio and workings as an assistant for Sarto. There is also an influence in his work from Jacopo Pontormo (1494 1557) and Il Rosso (1494 1540), both of whom some of Puligos work was misattributed for.
His best known work is a piece titled, Vision of Saint Bernard, now in the Walters Gallery in Baltimore, U.S. He had much success in portrait work and became an in demand artist in Florence. His piece, Portrait of Piero Carnesecchi, from 1527 is now in the Uffizi Gallery. Carnesecchi (1508 1567) was s philosopher of humanism at the time, who gained much favor under the Medici court, but in his reformist activities was later betrayed and executed by Cosimo I de Medici.
Puligos earliest known work is the Virgin and Child with Saint John, done in the style of Ghirlandaio, who was the son of the renowned Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449 1494). The greater influence of Sarto comes in his later pieces, such as Holy Family, Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John and Mary Magdalene. In some of these later works there is also a noted influence of the artist, Fra Bartolomeo (1472 1517) and the far reaching influence of Raphael (1483 1520).