Giacomo Rocca
Giacomo Rocca was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance or Mannerist period. He was a pupil of Daniele da Volterra, and aided in completion of frescoes for the first chapel on the right of Santa Maria degli Angeli e [dei Martiri|Santa Maria degli Angeli] in Rome. Rocca's biography is sketched in Giovanni Baglione's Le vite de' pittori, scultori et architetti dal pontificato di Gregorio XIII del 1572 in fino a tempi di Papa Urbano VIII nel 1642.
Works
- Frescoes in the Ricci Chapel, San Pietro in Montorio
- Prophets and Sibyls and Subjects in the Old Testament, frescoes at the Galleria and the Palazzo Sacchetti chapel in Rome
- Roman Triumphs, frescos at the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome