Francesco de' Rossi (1510–11 November 1563) was an Italian Mannerist painter who lived and worked in Florence, with periods in Bologna and

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, ending with a long period in Rome, where he died. He is known by various names, usually the adopted one of Francesco Salviati or Il Salviati, after an early patron, but also Francesco Rossi and Cecchino del Salviati. He worked in

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and oils, on ambitious

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s, but also painted many portraits, and designed tapestries for the Medici.

Biography

Salviati was born in Florence. He apprenticed under

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, and finally

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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

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. 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

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in completing a fresco of the ''Visitation'' 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

, 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

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In 1543 Salviati returned to Florence. Working for

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, he completed a fresco decoration eulogizing the Medici family (''Triumph of Camillus'' in the ''Sala dell'Udienza'' of the

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, 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,

and Pontormo. He painted a ''Deposition'' altarpiece for Santa Croce in 1547–48. This crowded and complex subject was a key one for Late Renaissance Italian painters. He often travelled to Rome between 1548 and 1563, to complete various fresco series, such as ''Wedding at Cana'' 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 (''Life of David''), and in Palazzo Farnese. He died in Rome on 11 November 1563.

Collections

The Cleveland Museum of Art, the Courtauld Institute of Art (London), the Getty Museum,

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, the Hermitage Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the

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(Vienna), the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museo Poldi Pezzoli (Milan),

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(Leipzig), the

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, the

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(Washington D.C.), Pinacoteca di Brera (Milan),

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(Florida), the

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, the Saint Louis Art Museum, and the Uffizi are among the public collections holding paintings by Francesco de' Rossi.

Gallery

File:Francesco Salviati --Portrait of a Young Man, c. 1550.jpg, ''Portrait of a Young Man'', oil on canvas, c. 1550, Honolulu Museum of Art File:Francesco Salviati 003.jpg, Charity, 1554–58, Uffizi Image:Francesco de' Rossi's painting 'The Doubting of St. Thomas'.jpg, ''The Doubting of St. Thomas,'' 1543–1547, Louvre Image:Francesco de' Rossi's painting 'Portrait of a Man'.jpg, ''Portrait of a Man,'' 1540-1550, Metropolitan Museum of Art File:Francesco Salviati (Francesco de' Rossi) - Carlo Rimbotti (1518–1591) - 2017.401 - Metropolitan Museum of Art.jpg, Portrait of

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(1548), oil on wood, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Footnotes

References

External links

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''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) {{DEFAULTSORT:Rossi (Il Salviati), Francesco De 1510 births 1563 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Mannerist painters Painters from Florence Tapestry artists Italian textile artists