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ROSSELLI, COSIMO (1439c. 1507)

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 746 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RON-SAC
ROSSELLI, COSIMO (1439c. 1507) , Florentine painter, was born in 1439. At the age of fourteen he became a pupil of
Neri
  di Bicci, and in 146o he worked as assistant to his
cousin
  Bernardo di Stefano Rosselli. The first work of Cosimo mentioned by
Vasari
  exists in S. Ambrogio, in Florence, over the third altar on the left. It is an " Assumption of the Virgin," a youthful and feeble work. In the same church, on the
wall
  of one of the chapels, is a fresco by Cosimo which
Vasari
  praises highly, especially for a portrait of the young scholar Pico of Mirandola. The scene, a procession bearing a miracle-working chalice, is painted with much vigour and less mannerism than most of this artist's work. A picture painted by Rosselli for the church of the Annunziata, with figures of SS.
Barbara
 , Matthew and the Baptist, is in the Academy of Florence. Rosselli also spent some time in Lucca, where he painted several altar-pieces for various churches. A picture attributed to him, taken from the church of S. Girolamo at Fiesole, is now in the National Gallery of London. It is a large
retable
 , with, in the
centre, St Jerome in the wilderness kneeling before a crucifix, and at the sides
standing
  figures of St Damasus and St Eusebius, St Paolo and St Eustachia; below is a predella with small subjects. Though dry and hard in treatment, the figures are designed with much dignity. The Berlin Gallery possesses three pictures by Rosselli: "The Virgin in
Glory
 ," "The Entombment of Christ," and " The Massacre of the Innocents." In 148o Rosselli, together with the
chief
  painters of Florence, was invited by Sixtus IV. to Rome to assist in the painting of the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. Three of these were executed by him" The Destruction of Pharaoh's Army in the Red Sea," " Christ Preaching by the Lake of Tiberias," and " The Last Supper." The last of these is well preserved, but is a mediocre work. Vasari's story about the pope admiring Rosselli's paintings more than those of his abler brother painters has probably little foundation. Rosselli's Sistine frescoes were partly painted by his assistant Piero di Cosimo, who was so called after Cosimo Rosselli. His
chief
  pupil was Fra Bartolommeo. According to Vasari, Rosselli died in 1484, but this is a mistake, as his will exists dated 25th of November 1506 (see Gaye, Car. tined. ii. 457 n.).
For an account of Rosselli's Sistine frescoes, see Platner and Bunsen, Beschreibung der Stadt Rom, ii. pt. i.; and Rumohr, Italien. Forschungen, ii. 265.


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