The Portrait Society | Alessandro Rosi

24/10/1997 | 4th quarter 20th centuryCharcoal and acrylic on canvasH x L : 50 x 40 cm

Alessandro Rosi was a Florentine painter about whose life little is known. He was a pupil of Cesare Dandini. Rosi painted two bacchanals and a picture of the Madonna for Grand Duke Ferdinando de' Medici. Together with other artists, he painted frescoes in the church of Santissima Annunziata in Florence and in Prato Cathedral. From the 1680s, he specialised in cartoons for curtains and tapestries, mostly with allegorical motifs.

Alessandro Rosi was a Florentine painter about whose life little is known. He was a pupil of Cesare Dandini. Rosi painted two bacchanals and a picture of the Madonna for Grand Duke Ferdinando de' Medici. Together with other artists, he painted frescoes in the church of Santissima Annunziata in Florence and in Prato Cathedral. From the 1680s, he specialised in cartoons for curtains and tapestries, mostly with allegorical motifs.

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