Francesco Salviati (Francesco de' Rossi) (1510-1563)

• Was an Italian Mannerist painter.
• Salviati lived and worked mainly in Florence, but also produced several works in Rome.
• He is known by many names, prominently the adopted name Francesco Salviati or as Il Salviati, but also Francesco Rossi and Cecchino del Salviati.
• Salviati was born in Florence.
• He apprenticed under Giuliano Bugiardini, Baccio Bandinelli, Raffaele Brescianino, and finally Andrea del Sarto in 1529–30.
• In 1531 he traveled to Rome, where he met another Bandinelli pupil, Giorgio Vasari.
• Salviati helped to Vasari to complete the frescoes on the Life of John the Baptist in the Palazzo Salviati for the Cardinal Giovanni Salviati.
• He often travelled to Rome between 1548 and 1563, to complete various fresco series, such as Wedding of Canae in the Oratory of the Piceni and a Birth of John the Baptist in the Oratory of San Giovanni Decollato.
• He died in Rome on 11 November 1563.
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