Francesco Salviati

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Self-portrait of Salviati in the Stories of Furius Camillus , 1543–45, Sala dell'Udienza, Palazzo Vecchio , Florence

Francesco Salviati , also called Il Salviati , Francesco de 'Rossi or Cecchino del Salviati (* 1510 in Florence , † November 11, 1563 in Rome ) was an Italian painter and draftsman of Mannerism , who worked mainly in Rome, Florence, Bologna and Venice was active.

With Salviati, the Mannerist style of painting that was developed in Rome with Michelangelo , Raffael and Giulio Romano came to the art centers of Northern Italy. In addition to his work as a fresco painter, he was a sought-after and productive portraitist. Many of his drawings and figure studies, as well as designs for the Florentine carpet manufacturer, have been preserved.

Life

Salviati was born in Florence as the son of a velvet weaver. He received his training as a painter from Giuliano Bugiardini (1475–1577), Baccio Bandinelli , Raffaele Brescianino and together with Giorgio Vasari from Andrea del Sarto , in whose workshop he completed his apprenticeship between 1529 and 1530. In 1531, like many of the artists who had left the city after the Sacco di Roma , he traveled to Rome, where the popes and noble families had resumed their patronage activities. There he met Giorgio Vasari again, with whom he had a lifelong friendship.

Salvati's Entombment in Santa Maria dell'Anima , Rome (1530–50)

In Rome he had the opportunity to study the innovative works of Michelangelo , Raffael and Giulio Romano , which would shape Salviati's future painting style. He received his first commission in Rome from the Florentine Cardinal Giovanni Salvati. The cardinal, an uncle of Cosimo I de 'Medici , accepted him into his court and commissioned him to do frescoes in the Palazzo Salviati. From now on he carried the name of his patron, Salviati. Salviati subsequently traveled to furnish castles and palaces, churches and monasteries in northern Italian cities such as Venice, Bologna, his hometown Florence, once to France to the Dampierre Castle 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 altar and Madonna pictures. Occasionally fresco work was carried out in cooperation with other painters, such as with Jacopino del Conte and Daniele da Volterra and especially with Vasari, whose workshop he temporarily belonged to.

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

Picture gallery

literature

  • Giorgio Vasari : The life of Francesco Salviati and Cristofano Gherardi . Come and a. by Sabine Feser. Berlin 2009. (From: Vasari, Le vite ).
  • Francesco Salviati ou la Bella Maniera. Edited by Cathérine Monbeig Goguel. Exhibition cat. Louvre, Paris 1998.
  • Iris Hofmeister Cheney: Francesco Salviati (1510–1563). 4 vols. Ph.D. thesis New York, New York University, Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Science, Department of Fine Arts 1963.

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SURNAME Salviati, Francesco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rossi, Francesco de '; Salviati, Cecchino del
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH 1510
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1563
Place of death Rome