Francesco de' Rossi
Francesco Salviati | |
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Self portrait (1540 - 1549), Museo di Capodimonte, Naples | |
Born | Francesco de' Rossi 1510 |
Died | November 11, 1563 | (aged 52–53)
Nationality | Italian |
Notable work | The Incredulity of Saint Thomas |
Movement | Mannerism |
Francesco de' Rossi (1510–11 November 1563) was an Italian Mannerist painter who lived and worked mainly in Florence, but also produced several works in Rome. He is known by many names, prominently the adopted name Francesco Salviati or as Il Salviati, but also Francesco Rossi and Cecchino del Salviati.
Biography
Salviati was born in Florence. He apprenticed under Giuliano Bugiardini, Baccio Bandinelli, Raffaele Brescianino, and finally Andrea del Sarto in 1529–30. In 1531 he traveled to Rome, where he met another Bandinelli pupil, Giorgio Vasari, and helped to complete the frescoes on the Life of John the Baptist in the Palazzo Salviati for the Cardinal Giovanni Salviati. It is from his attachment to this household that he took on the surname.
He frescoed an Annunciation in San Francesco a Ripa (1533–35). His mature style has mannerist contortions and crowded scenes similar to the output of Giulio Romano. In 1538 he joined Jacopino del Conte in completing a fresco of the Visitation[1] for the Oratory of San Giovanni Decollato, a Florentine fraternity ministering to persons who had been condemned to execution.
Salviati painted in Bologna in 1540 alongside Vasari, and stayed for a brief time in Venice, where he frescoed decorations for the Palazzo Grimani di Santa Maria Formosa in antique style. During this period his style shows the influences of Parmigianino. His many portrait paintings can sometimes be confused for Bronzino.[2][3][4]
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In 1543 Salviati returned to Florence. Working for Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, he completed a fresco decoration eulogizing the Medici family (Triumph of Camillus in the Sala dell'Udienza of the Palazzo Vecchio, 1543–45). He also designed tapestry cartoons for the recently established Arazzeria, including Ecce homo, Resurrection, and Joseph explains the Pharaoh's dreams. The latter commission was awarded after a competition, which pitted him against contemporary Florentine Mannerists, Bronzino and Pontormo. He painted a Deposition altarpiece for Santa Croce in 1547–48. This theme, one which became a master oeuvre topic for Late-Renaissance artists, is handled in a crowded complex fashion.
He often travelled to Rome between 1548 and 1563, to complete various fresco series, such as Wedding of Canae in the Oratory of the Piceni, a Birth of John the Baptist in the Oratory of San Giovanni Decollato, in the Palazzo della Cancelleria (Pallium Cappella), in the Palazzo Sacchetti (History of David[5]), and in Palazzo Farnese.
He died in Rome on 11 November 1563.[6]
The Cleveland Museum of Art, the Courtauld Institute of Art (London), the Getty Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, the Hermitage Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Liechtenstein Museum (Vienna), the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museo Poldi Pezzoli (Milan), Museum der bildenden Künste (Leipzig), the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), Pinacoteca di Brera (Milan), Ringling Museum of Art (Florida), the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, the Saint Louis Art Museum, and the Uffizi are among the public collections holding paintings by Francesco de' Rossi.
Gallery
Portrait of a Young Man, oil on canvas painting by Francesco Salviati, c. 1550, Honolulu Museum of Art
Charity, 1554–58, Uffizi
Francesco de' Rossi's painting The Doubting of St. Thomas, 1543–1547, Louvre
Francesco de' Rossi's painting Portrait of a Man, 1540-1550, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Portrait of Carlo Rimbotti (1548), oil on wood, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Footnotes
- ^ Krén, Emil; Marx, Daniel. "The Visitation". Web Gallery of Art. Archived from the original on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ "Salviati". Saint Louis Art Museum. Archived from the original on March 12, 2007. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ "Francesco Salviati". The J. Paul Getty Museum. J. Paul Getty Trust. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ Krén, Emil; Marx, Daniel. "Portrait of a Gentleman". Web Gallery of Art. Archived from the original on 3 September 2012. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ Krén, Emil; Marx, Daniel. "Bathsheb Goes to King David". Web Gallery of Art. Archived from the original on 11 March 2007. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ Goguel, Catherine Monbeig; Costamagna, Philippe; Hochmann, Michel (2001). Francesco Salviati et la Bella Maniera. École Française de Rome. ISBN 2-7283-0627-3.
References
- Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Pelican History of Art (ed.). Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. Penguin Books. pp. 437–442.
External links
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- Web Gallery of Art Biography of Salviati and images of works.
- The engravings of Giorgio Ghisi, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Francesco de' Rossi (see index)