Tommaso D`Antonio Manzuoli called Maso da San Friano (1531-1571)
• Was an Italian painter active in Florence.
• He was born in San Friano and died in Florence.
• According to Giorgio Vasari, Maso was a pupil of Pier Francesco Foschi.
• He collaborated with an elder Michelangelo on some projects.
• He participated in the decoration of the Studiolo of Francesco I with an oval canvas relating the Fall of Icarus story (1572).
• A portrait of Ferdinando I de' Medici (1570) by Maso can be found in the Town Council Hall of Prato.
• He is regarded as part of the Counter-Maniera or Counter-Mannerism movement in Florence.
• His most important pupils were Jacopo da Empoli and Alessandro Fei.
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Tommaso D`Antonio Manzuoli, Portrait of a Gentleman, Three-Quarters, His Arms Resting on a Writing Table, 1550/1570
Original, Sotheby`s, New York. Visited in 2020.
Tommaso D`Antonio Manzuoli, Portrait of a Gentleman, Three-Quarters, His Arms Resting on a Writing Table, 1550/1570
Tommaso d’Antonio Manzuoli, Holy Family with the Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine, c. 1560
Original, The Cleveland Museum of Art. Visited in 2020.
Tommaso d’Antonio Manzuoli, Holy Family with the Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine, c. 1560
Tommaso d’Antonio Manzuoli, Holy Family with the Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine, c. 1560
