Francesco de' Rossi

Francesco Salviati, also called Il Salviati, Francesсo de ' Rossi or Cecchino del Salviati (* 1510 in Florence, † 1563 in Rome) was an Italian painter and draftsman of Mannerism, which was mainly active in Rome, Florence, Bologna and Venice.

With the resulting Salviati in Rome with Michelangelo, Raphael and Giulio Romano painting style of Mannerism was the art centers of northern Italy. Besides his work as a fresco painter, he was searched and productive portraitist. Many of his drawings and figure studies, as well as designs for the Florentine Tepppichmanufaktur are obtained.

Life

Salviati was born the son of a velvet weaver in Florence. His training as a painter, he was at Bugiardini Giuliano (1475-1577), Baccio Bandinelli, Raffaele Brescianino and together with Giorgio Vasari to Andrea del Sarto, in whose workshop he held until 1530, completed his apprenticeship between 1529. 1531 he traveled like many of the artists who had left after the Sack of Rome the city to Rome, where the popes and noble families had taken their Mäzenatentätigkeit again. There he met again to Giorgio Vasari, with whom he formed a lifelong friendship.

In Rome he had the opportunity to study the innovative works by Michelangelo, Raphael and Giulio Romano, which should shape future Salviati's style of painting. His first commission in Rome received by the Florentine Cardinal Giovanni Salvati. Salviati, an uncle of Cosimo I de 'Medici, took him into his court and charged him with Freskierungen in the Palazzo Salviati. From now on he took the name of his patron, Salviati. Salviati traveled in the wake of the décor in castles and palaces, churches and monasteries in northern Italian cities such as Venice, Bologna, his hometown of Florence, one to France at the Castle of Dampierre of Prince Charles of Lorraine ( 1555/57 ), but returned again and again for more or less extended stays back to Rome.

In addition to the frescoes in palaces and churches, he painted altarpieces and Madonnas. Occasionally fresco work was carried out in cooperation with other painters, as with Jacopino del Conte and Daniele da Volterra and especially with Vasari, whose workshop he remained temporarily.

Frescoes by Salviati located in Rome in the Vatican, in the church of Santa Maria dell'Anima, in the Chigi Chapel in Santa Maria del Popolo, in the Oratory of San Giovanni Decollato, the Palazzo Farnese, the Palazzo Ricci - Sacchetti, in the Sala Paolina Castel Sant'Angelo and the Palazzo Della Rovere, in Florence in the rooms of Eleonora of Toledo and in the hall of Udienza in the Palazzo Vecchio, Palazzo Grimani in Venice and the Biblioteca Marciana.

• " Triumph of Furius Camillus ", Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
• " Doubting Thomas", Musée du Louvre, Paris
• Rückenfigur, Pen And Ink, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille
• Male portrait, Getty Museum