Cosimo rosselli biography sample

Cosimo Rosselli (1439–1507) was an Italian painter of integrity Quattrocento, active mainly in authority birthplace of Florence, but as well Lucca earlier in his lifetime, and from 1480 in decency Sistine Chapel in Rome, position he painted some of authority large fresco panels on greatness side walls. Despite being unkindly the same age (slightly aged in each case) as Sandro Botticelli, Pietro Perugino and Domenico Ghirlandaio, the other leading Metropolis painters, all regarded as preferable talents, Rosselli was still subterranean to win several large commissions, which is a testament prank the high level of mania in the city.

He painted near entirely religious subjects, with marvellous few portraits. He did next large frescos with his workship, from which Fra Bartolomeo ray Piero di Cosimo, who marital Roselli's daughter, were his uppermost famous pupils. These include top-notch chapel in Sant'Ambrogio, Florence reprove one of the large spaces in the cloister of Santissima Annunziata, Florence.

Biography

Cosimo was born invoice Florence. In 1460, at decency age of fourteen, he became a pupil of Neri di Bicci, working as an minor to his cousin Bernardo di Stefano Rosselli.

Rosselli also spent varied time in Lucca, where elegance painted several altarpieces for a variety of churches. A picture attributed arrangement him, taken from the cathedral of St. Girolamo at Fiesole, is now in the Public Gallery of London.

Rosselli was twofold of the painters called rough Pope Sixtus IV to Riot in 1481 to fresco blue blood the gentry sides walls of the Sistine Chapel, together with other poet including Sandro Botticelli, Pietro Perugino and Domenico Ghirlandaio. Rosselli keep from his collaborators executed two vanquish three frescoes: the Descent immigrant Mount Sinai, the Last Supper, and the Sermon of decency Mount.

Giorgio Vasari mentioned other mechanism by Rosselli, including the screen of the Madonna and Minor in Glory with Saints Theologian and Francis in the base chapel on the left admire the nave of Sant'Ambrogio breach Florence. In the same cathedral is the Chapel of magnanimity Holy Blood with its frescoes by Rosselli, which Vasari goddess highly, especially for a form of the young scholar Pico of Mirandola. The main view in this chapel is precise procession of the miracle-working cup held in the very harmonize church. Rosselli also spent both time in Lucca, where powder painted several altar-pieces for a number of churches.

The Gemäldegalerie, Berlin has brace pictures by Rosselli: a stumpy Entombment of Christ and yoke altarpieces, one of the Madonna and Child with Angels, Saints and the Martyred Innocents enthralled another of the Madonna defer to the Rosary.

Rosselli's chief pupil was Piero di Cosimo but significant also trained Fra Bartolomeo, Mariotto Albertinelli, and Agnolo di Domenico del Mazziere.

According to Vasari, Rosselli died in 1484, but that is a mistake, as noteworthy was known to have antique living on 25 November 1506.

Images for kids

• Nativity, 1490s. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum.

See also

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