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Francesco Salviati or Francesco de' Rossi (1510 – 11 November 1563) was an Italian Mannerist painter who lived and worked in Florence, with periods in Bologna and Venice, ending with a long period in Rome, where he died.
Francesco Salviati (born 1510, Florence [Italy]—died November 11, 1563, Rome) was a painter and designer, one of the leading Mannerist fresco painters of the Florentine-Roman school.
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Francesco Salviati (Francesco de’Rossi) apprenticed as a goldsmith before studying painting with Giuliano Bugiardini, Roberto Marone, and (from 1529-31) Andrea del Sarto. He took the name of Cardinal Giovanni Salviati, who financed the artist’s study of Michelangelo and Raphael.
Salviati was one of the leading fresco decorators of his day, specializing in learned and elaborate multi-figure compositions, typically Mannerist in their artificiality and abstruseness, and similar in style to those of his friend Vasari. Read more. Text source: The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford University Press) Artworks.
Feb 21, 2024 · Salviati specialized in elaborate paintings that were typically Mannerist in their depiction of closely packed figures in spirited but physically impossible poses. This style earned him great fame even in France, where he worked for a year. Salviati also made designs for tapestries.
In this Spotlight, we focus on the Italian Mannerist painter Francesco Salviati (1510–1563) and his fascinating Portrait of Marcus Aurelius.