Matteo Rosselli (1578–1650)

• Was an Italian painter.
• He first apprenticed with Gregorio Pagani.
• On 26 February 1599, he was inducted to the Accademia del Disegno.
• In 1605 traveled to Rome to work with Domenico Passignano for six months.

• He completed some frescoes on The Legend of the Origin of the Servite Order (1614–1618) in the Palazzo.

• He painted a Last Supper (1614) now in Conservatorio di San Pier Martire. 

• Upon the French monarch's death, he was commissioned two commemorative paintings of events in the life of Henry IV.

• He frescoed in reception rooms of the Villa di Poggio Imperiale with scenes portraying European emperors amid biblical and historical scenes (1619–1623). 

• The largest collection of Rosselli drawings is contained within the Louvre Museum, Paris.

• Among his many pupils were Baldassare Franceschini, Lorenzo Lippi, Francesco Furini, Giovanni da San Giovanni (Giovanni Mannozzi), and Jacopo Vignali.

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