Stefano Pieri was an early 17th-century
Florentine painter.
Biography
Baptismal documents discovered in 2017 revealed that Pieri was born to Piero Pieri-Rossi, a descendent of
Parma's nobility working as a guard of the Florence Customs House, and living in the neighborhood of
San Jacopo sopr'Arno.[1]
He trained under
Agnolo Bronzino before approaching
Giorgio Vasari and enrolling at the
Accademia del Diseno on 16 July 1564.[1] In that year, he participated with many other young artists in the funeral of
Michelangelo; works of art from that event remain in many Florentine galleries today. His painting of Michelangelo beside
Duke Cosimo de' Medici gained special praise from Vasari.[2] He assisted Vasari in painting the monumental
Last Judgement on the cupola of the
Florence Cathedral in the late 1570s.[3]