ABSTRACT
Giulio Del Riccio's offspring, Luigi's and Antonio's cousins, are considered in this chapter. Francesco di Giulio was once employed in the Del Riccio's bank in Rome and when he moved to Naples in 1550 he brought along three portraits representing Luigi Del Riccio, Michelangelo Buonarroti, and Cecchino Bracci. His brothers Guglielmo and Pierantonio may have also moved to Naples due to the presence in the city of members of the Olivieri family, their cousins from mother's side. This chapter also covers the Del Riccio's financial and social relations, as well as their marital and clientage ties. In Naples, Guglielmo and, later on, Pierantonio were elected consuls of the Florentine nation; in 1566, Guglielmo endowed a new church, dedicated to San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, and acquired the rights to a private chapel. Unpublished letters sent in 1566–1568 from Pierantonio in Naples to Gugliemo in Florence show important developments: Marco Pino, the Sienese painter in charge of the making of the altarpiece, had been asked to conform to a Michelagelesque iconography; while the scene still visible in the altarpiece betrays the patron's first intentions. The idea to replicate a work by Michelangelo in the Neapolitan altarpiece may have been the result of Guglielmo's recent return to Florence.
