Michele Tosini, also called Michele di Ridolfo (1503–1577)

• Was an Italian painter of the Renaissance and Mannerist period.
• Tosini worked in Florence.
• He apprenticed initially with Lorenzo di Credi and Antonio del Ceraiolo, but then moved into the studio of Ridolfo Ghirlandaio.
• From Ridolfo Ghirlandaio he acquired the name Michele di Ridolfo or Michele (di Ridolfo) del Ghirlandaio.
• Tosini began painting in the early 16th-century Florentine style of Fra Bartolommeo and Andrea del Sarto.
• After 1556, Tosini served as an assistant to Giorgio Vasari in the decoration of the Salone dei Cinquecento in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence.
• Through Vasari's example, Tosini adopted a vocabulary derived from the work of Michelangelo and painted some of his best-known works in this manner.
• Tosini was a mentor to Bernardino Poccetti and Francesco Brina.
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