Acidic colors, extravagant draperies, and figures in contorted poses proliferated in Andrea Lilio's Mannerist style. He spent much of his career working in Rome and participated in many of the decorative enterprises commissioned by Pope Sixtus V, including frescoes in the Vatican Library and the Sistine Chapel. Between 1597 and 1601, he worked in Ancona, his birthplace, where he created a series o
