Some Observations on “Michele Grechi Lucchese” Painter and Engraver
Ilaria Taddeo
The article analyzes two decorations by the Lucchese artist Michele Grechi in mid-sixteenth-century Rome. The publication of the artist’s previously inedited testament provides the opportunity to deeper evaluate an oft-stated but unconfirmed attribution to Michele Grechi of a painted frieze in the first room of Clement VII in Castel Sant’Angelo (1533). The evaluation of Michele Grechi’s artistic models is further discussed through analysis of the decoration of the Guidiccioni Chapel in the Church of Santo Spirito in Sassia (1550-1552), which, as far as is known, is the only work that can be certainly attributed to the artist’s design.