Cosimo Rosselli

Italian (Florentine), 1439-1507

BiographyHe was born in Florence in 1440. He was a pupil from May 1453 to October 1456 of Blacks Bicci , then move on to the following Alesso Baldovinetti ; in 1459 he received his first important commission for an altarpiece , now lost, for the Florentine church of Santa Trinita . In 1472 the records of the Compagnia di San Luca remember him busy in Santa Maria "in Champo" . Dated 1473 is the altarpiece of the 'Annunciation and Four Saints ( Avignon , Musée du Petit Palais ), which looks at ways of Domenico Veneziano , Benozzo Gozzoli and Blacks Bicci . Towards the 1475th - 1,476th painted the Calling of St. Philip Benizi in the Cloister of the ratings of the Santissima Annunziata.

1480 is considered to be about the Madonna and Child with Angels, preserved at the Metropolitan Museum of New York , which shows clear references to the painting of Andrea del Verrocchio . In the spring of 1481 Rosselli was invited by Pope Sixtus IV in Rome for the decoration of the Sistine Chapel next to Pietro Perugino , Domenico Ghirlandaio , Sandro Botticelli. It was Rosselli, out of ignorance or laziness, to use soprammissioni 'with the finest ultramarine blues and of other bright colors' and gold highlights. Rosselli created the three panels of the descent from Mount Sinai , with the inscription PROMULGATIO LEGIS Scripte FOR MOISEM. Moses , kneeling, receiving the plates; Featured Moses was wroth against his people worshiping the golden calf, punishes the idolaters and breaks the Tablets of the Law, receiving new; the other box is the Sermon on the Mount and the healing of the leper , and finally the fresco of the ' Last Supper , with windows beyond the three episodes of the Passion: Agony in the Garden, capture and crucifixion.

He returned to Florence in 1482 created the table devoted to Corbinelli chapel, dedicated to St. Thomas , in the basilica of the Holy Spirit . Of this period are also a number of boards designed to Florentine churches and the fresco in the Chapel of the Miracle of the Sacrament in St. Ambrose , depicting the Miracle of the Eucharist ( in 1485 - the 1,486th ) and mentioned by Vasari as his best work in Florence . Painting with force and one of the least conventional of his works, presents portraits of the characters of Marsilio Ficino , Pico della Mirandola and Poliziano , set right in the middle of the square. In those years he also went to Pisa , where joined by Benozzo Gozzoli in the completion of the frescoes in the Monumental Cemetery .

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