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COSIMO See also:ROSSELLI (1439—c. 1507)
, Florentine painter, was See also:born in 1439
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At the See also:age of fourteen he became a See also:pupil of See also:Neri di Bicci, and in 146o he worked as assistant to his See also:cousin Bernardo di Stefano See also:Rosselli
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The first See also:work of Cosimo mentioned by See also:Vasari exists in S
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Ambrogio, in See also:Florence, over the third See also:altar on the See also:left
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It is an " See also:Assumption of the Virgin," a youthful and feeble work
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In the same See also: It is a large See also:retable, with, in the centre, St See also:Jerome in the See also:wilderness kneeling before a crucifix, and at the sides See also:standing figures of St See also:Damasus and St See also:Eusebius, St See also:Paolo and St Eustachia; below is a See also:predella with small subjects . Though dry and hard in treatment, the figures are designed with much dignity . The See also:Berlin Gallery possesses three pictures by Rosselli: "The Virgin in See also:Glory," "The Entombment of See also:Christ," and " The See also:Massacre of the Innocents." In 148o Rosselli, together with the See also:chief painters of Florence, was invited by See also:Sixtus IV. to See also:Rome to assist in the See also:painting of the frescoes in the Sistine See also:Chapel . Three of these were executed by him—" The Destruction of See also:Pharaoh's See also:Army in the Red See also:Sea," " Christ See also:Preaching by the See also:Lake of See also:Tiberias," and " The Last Supper." The last of these is well preserved, but is a mediocre work . Vasari's See also:story about the See also:pope admiring Rosselli's paintings more than those of his abler See also:brother painters has probably little See also:foundation . Rosselli's Sistine frescoes were partly painted by his assistant See also:Piero di Cosimo, who was so called after Cosimo Rosselli . His chief pupil was Fra Bartolommeo . According to Vasari, Rosselli died in 1484, but this is a See also:mistake, as his will exists dated 25th of See also:November 1506 (see Gaye, See also:Car. See also:tined. ii . 457 n.) . For an See also:account of Rosselli's Sistine frescoes, see Platner and See also:Bunsen, Beschreibung der Stadt Rom, ii. pt. i.; and Rumohr, Italien . Forschungen, ii . 265 .
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