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Guillaume [Guglielmo] de Marcillat [Guillaume de Pierre]
(b La Châtre, nr Bourges, 1467–70; d Arezzo, 30 July 1529). French stained-glass maker and painter, active in Italy. He was called to Rome before 1509, perhaps by Donato Bramante. Marcillat was employed by the popes Julius II and Leo X in the Vatican and at S Maria del Popolo, where the two Serlian windows in the choir are his earliest surviving works (1509; heavily rest.). Summoned to Cortona in 1515 by Cardinal Silvio Passerini, he established a workshop and began keeping a detailed account-book, which has survived; his prolific output there included a two-part window for the chancel of Cortona Cathedral, comprising the Nativity (1516; Detroit, MI, Inst. A., no. 37.138; see STAINED GLASS, fig. 5) and the Adoration of the Magi (London, V&A, no. 634.1902). Based in Arezzo by 1519, he produced the most skilfully executed windows of his age, notably the five splendidly illusionistic Gospel scenes, including the Expulsion from the Temple and the Raising of Lazarus, in Arezzo Cathedral (1519–24), a dramatic Assumption in SS Annunziata (1520) and an oculus in S Francesco (1524; all in situ). Traces of interior decoration remain (Cherici). His biblical frescoes in the vault of Arezzo Cathedral (1521–6) reflect the latest works in the Vatican by Michelangelo and Raphael and are painted in a style that Marcillat passed on to his pupil Giorgio Vasari. His panel paintings include an extraordinary Disputation on Original Sin (Berlin, Bodemus.) from S Francesco, Arezzo, and an Annunciation and Four Saints (Arezzo, Convent of Sargiano), originally from S Margherita.
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