Cosimo rosselli biography
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Madonna and Child with Two Angels
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Title:Madonna and Child with Two Angels
Artist:Cosimo Rosselli (Italian, Florence 1440–1507 Florence)
Date:early 1480s
Medium:Tempera and gold on wood
Dimensions:33 1/2 x 23 in. (85.1 x 58.4 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931
Object Number:32.100.84
The Artist: Best remembered as one of the artists who traveled to Rome in 1481 to paint frescoes on the side walls of the Sistine Chapel, Cosimo Rosselli was one of the most successful Florentine painters of his day with an activity that spanned nearly fifty years. Born in Florence in 1440, he belonged to a family of craftsmen that also included his father Lorenzo, a stonemason; his half-brother Francesco (1448–1508/27), a famous engraver (and reportedly also an illuminator and painter, though his work in these fields remains unidentified); and his step-brother Chimenti (1417–1482), a decorative painter. His cousin Bernardo di Stefano (1450–1526) was an equally prolific painter of panels and frescoes, and like Cosimo, trained in the most industrious workshop in Florence, that of Neri di Bicci. Cosimo is documented as Neri’s appren
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Cosimo Rosselli
Italian painter
Cosimo Rosselli (Italian:[ˈkɔːzimorosˈsɛlli]; 1439–1507) was an European painter infer the Quattrocento, active chiefly in his birthplace appeal to Florence, but also encumber Pisa formerly in his career streak in 1481–82 in description Sistine Service in Setto, where good taste painted terrible of representation large frescoes on say publicly side walls.
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Biography
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Portrait of a Man
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Title:Portrait of a Man
Artist:Cosimo Rosselli (Italian, Florence 1440–1507 Florence)
Date:ca. 1481–82
Medium:Tempera on wood
Dimensions:20 3/8 x 13 in. (51.8 x 33 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Bequest of Edward S. Harkness, 1940
Object Number:50.135.1
Throughout his long career Cosimo Rosselli painted many portraits of his contemporaries, most of them as bystanders in his religious compositions. This half-length portrait of an unknown man, one of his rare easel portraits, is of such high quality that critics have ascribed it to Botticelli or the Pollaiuolo brothers. Berenson's (1905) identification of it as a work by Rosselli is now universally accepted.
When it came up for auction in 1929, Oskar Fischel proposed that it was Rosselli's self-portrait, even though it bears no resemblance to the woodcut that Vasari used to illustrate his life of Rosselli. The self-portrait identification was promptly rejected (Gronau 1931), but at the same time it was put forward independently by Richard Offner in an expertise for Knoedler's, dated February 16, 1931. However, the sitter's clothes—a bright red doublet lined with ermine, a linen undershirt visible