Vaga (Pierin del) 1500-1547
Del Vaga, whose real name was Pietro Buonaccorsi, was born near Florence. He was a pupil of Raphael’s, and after the latter’s death was employed in finishing a part of his work in the Vatican. Almost all del Vaga’s work was done in Genoa, where he painted the state apartments in the Villa Doria. The charming plaster decorations in the Palazzo Pallavicini (now Cataldi) are by him, and also the Hercules cycle in the Palazzo Odero (now Mari).