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Bernardo di Stefano Rosselli (1450 - 1526) was an

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painter active in his native

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and the surrounding countryside. Bernardo was probably young teen when, along with his cousin, the more famous

Cosimo Rosselli Cosimo Rosselli (; 1439–1507) was an Italian painter of the Quattrocento, active mainly in his birthplace of Florence, but also in Pisa earlier in his career and in 1481–82 in the Sistine Chapel in Rome, where he painted some of the large ...

, he entered the workshop of

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in Florence. He was working as an independent artist by 1473, when he painted a fresco of the ''Crucifixion'' (now fragmentary) at they abbey of San Cassiano at Montescolari, near

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. In 1474 he painted two fresco lunettes of ''Adam and Eve'' and ''Cain and Abel'' in the refectory of the Abbey at Passignano in the Val di Pesa. In 1484 he painted a ''Madonna della Cintola with Saints'' for San Piero a Sieve in the

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, now in the

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. 1489 he painted the ''

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'' architecture and lilies on the walls of the Sala dei Gigli in the

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of Florence. An altarpiece of the ''Madonna and Child with Four Saints,'' dated 1497, is over the high altar of San Matteo in Terrossola, near

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. In 1499 Bernardo was paid to modify Bernardo Daddi's fourteenth-century altarpiece in the Rucellai chapel of

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in Florence; Daddi's polyptych is now at the

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, but Bernardo's additions are lost. Bernardo's fresco of the ''Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian'' at the Oratorio della Compagnia di San Sebastiano at San Martino a Sveglia, near Fiesole, is dated 1502. Undated works include two fragmentary altarpieces (a ''Madonna and Child Enthroned'' and a ''Lamentation Over the Dead Christ'') at Santa Maria a Brucianesi near

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, and dozens of panels of the Virgin and Child for domestic interiors. Bernardo also painted panels for ''cassoni'', or wedding chests.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rosselli Bernardo di Stefano Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters Italian Renaissance painters Painters from Florence