Michele Tosini

Michele Tosini, also called Michele di Ridolfo, (1503–1577) was an Italian painter of the

He apprenticed initially with Lorenzo di Credi and Antonio del Ceraiolo, but then moved into the studio of Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, from whom he acquired the name Michele di Ridolfo or Michele (di Ridolfo) del Ghirlandaio. Some sources claim Tosini was the son of Ridolfo,^[1] but he was just a student of him.

Tosini began painting in the early 16th-century Florentine style of

Tosini was a mentor to Bernardino Poccetti and Francesco Brina.

Collections

Michele Tosini is represented in the following collections amongst others: National Gallery, London; Czartoryski Museum; Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow; McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College; Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University; State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy; Galleria Borghese.

References

• Franklin, David (1998) "Towards a New Chronology for Ridolfo Ghirlandaio and Michele Tosini", Burlington Magazine 140, pp. 445–56.
• Bolton, Roy (2009) [1] "Michele Tosini: Allegory of Fortitude", in Old Master Paintings and Drawings, London, Sphinx Books, p. 58.
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• Freedberg, Sydney J.
  (1993). Pelican History of Art (ed.). Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. pp. 463 Penguin Books Ltd.
• Grove encyclopedia entry in Artnet

• Hornik, Heidi J. (2021). Liverpool University Press (reissue) (ed.). Michele Tosini and the Ghirlandaio Workshop in Cinquecento Florence. p. 211.
• Hornik, Heidi J. (2002) "The Strozzi Chapel by Michele Tosini: A Visual Interpretation of Redemptive Epiphany", ' 'Artibus et Historiae V.46, pp. 97-118.

External links

Media related to Michele Tosini at Wikimedia Commons

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