Cosimo Rosselli
Cosimo Rosselli | |
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Born | Cosimo Rosselli 1439 Republic of Florence (present-day Tuscany, Italy) |
Died | c. 1507 (aged 68) Republic of Florence (present-day Tuscany, Italy) |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | High Renaissance |
Cosimo Rosselli (Italian: [ˈkɔːzimo rosˈsɛlli]; 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 frescoes on the side walls.
Though generally regarded as a lesser talent in comparison to Sandro Botticelli, Pietro Perugino, and Domenico Ghirlandaio, who were all also active at the Sistine Chapel, Rosselli was still able to win large and important commission throughout his career, a testament to his high level of activity in his native Florence. Important local commissions include a fresco in the cloister of Santissima Annunziata, Florence and those in the Chapel of the Holy Blood in Sant'Ambrogio, Florence.
Biography
Cosimo Rosselli was born in Florence. In 1453, at the age of fourteen, he became a pupil of Neri di Bicci, who also trained Cosimo's cousin Bernardo di Stefano Rosselli.[1] A relatively early work, completed in 1469, is the panel of Saints Barbara, Matthias and John the Baptist, painted for the chapel of the German confraternity in the church of the Santissima Annunziata, Florence. Rosselli also painted a fresco in the Annunziata's forecourt and a lunette of the Annunciation in the adjoining convent.
Rosselli was one of the painters called by
The Gemäldegalerie, Berlin has three pictures by Rosselli: a small Entombment of Christ and two altarpieces, one of the Madonna and Child with Angels, Saints and the Martyred Innocents and another of the Madonna of the Rosary.
Rosselli's chief pupil was Piero di Cosimo but he also trained Fra Bartolomeo, Mariotto Albertinelli, and Agnolo di Domenico del Mazziere.
According to Vasari, Rosselli died in 1484, but this is a mistake, as he was known to have been living on 25 November 1506.[3]
References
- ^ Piccoli Grand Musei, short biography.
- ^ Chisholm 1911, p. 745.
- ^ Chisholm 1911, p. 746.
- Sources
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Rosselli, Cosimo". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 745–746. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
Further reading
- ISBN 0870994794.) (see index; plate 78)
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