Cosimo Rosselli (1439–1507)

• Was an Italian painter of the Quattrocento.
• Rosselli was active mainly in his birthplace of Florence, but also in Pisa.
• In 1481-82 he worked in the Sistine Chapel in Rome, where he painted some of the large frescoes on the side walls.
• Important commissions include a fresco in the cloister of Santissima Annunziata, Florence and those in the Chapel of the Holy Blood in Sant'Ambrogio, Florence.
• Rosselli's chief pupil was Piero di Cosimo but also trained Fra Bartolomeo, Mariotto Albertinelli and Agnolo di Domenico del Mazziere.
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