Jacques Stella

Stella was born in Lyon. His father was Franois Stella, a painter and merchant of Flemish origin, but he died too soon to train Jacques in painting. Jacquess siblings were Franois the Younger and Madeleine . He was the uncle of Antoinette, Claudine, Franoise and Antoine Stella. Jacques Stella trained in Lyon before spending the period from 1616 to 1621 in the court of Cosimo II de Medici in Florence, working alongside Jacques Callot Florentine art is a strong influence on all Stellas work. On Cosimos death in 1621 Stella moved to Rome, where he spent the nextyears and won a reputation thanks to his paintings, small engravings and painted work on stones . Particularly working for pope Urban VIII, Stella was influenced in Rome by classicism and more specifically by the art of Nicolas Poussin, with whom he became an intimate friend.

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