Giovanni Battista di Jacopo, known as Rosso Fiorentino, or Il Rosso, was an Italian Mannerist painter who worked in oil and fresco and belonged to the Florentine school.
Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist is an unfinished c.1521 oil on panel painting by Rosso Fiorentino, produced early in his stay in Volterra. The work is now in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.
Portrait of a Young Man Seated on a Carpet is a c. 1525–1527 oil on panel painting by Rosso Fiorentino, now in the National Museum of Capodimonte. Its subject is unknown.
Giovanni di Lorenzo Larciani was an Italian painter. He was originally referred to as the Maestro dei paesaggi Kress.
Marjorie Elizabeth Cropper is a British-born art historian with a special interest in Italian and French Renaissance and Baroque art and art literature. Dean of the National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) since December 2000, she previously held positions as Professor of Art History at Johns Hopkins University and director of the university’s Charles S. Singleton Center for Italian Studies at Villa Spelman in Florence.
Marriage of the Virgin or the Ginori Altarpiece is a 1523 oil on panel painting by Rosso Fiorentino, signed and dated by the artist. It was commissioned by Carlo Ginori for the chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary and saint Joseph - previously owned by the Masi family that chapel had been acquired by the Ginori family in 1520. It still hangs in the Basilica, whilst a drawn copy attributed to Antonio Circignani is now in the Louvre (n.1592).
The Dead Christ with Angels or Four Angels Lamenting the Dead Christ is an oil on panel painting by Rosso Fiorentino, executed c. 1525–1526, now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Moses Defends Jethro's Daughters is an oil on canvas painting attributed to Italian artist Rosso Fiorentino, created c. 1523–1524, now held in the Uffizi in Florence, which acquired it in 1632. It depicts the Biblical episode when Moses defended the seven daughters of Jethro, who would be his father-in-law.
The Dei Altarpiece is an oil on panel painting by Rosso Fiorentino, commissioned in 1509 by the Dei family and completed in 1522. It is now in Florence's Galleria Palatina, whilst the Uffizi holds a preparatory drawing which may be the original idea for the work.
Villamagna Altarpiece is a 1521 oil on panel painting by Rosso Fiorentino, produced for Pieve dei Santi Giovanni Battista e Felicita, Villamagna's parish church, where it remained until the mid 1860s. It is now in the Diocesan Museum in Volterra. The artist's second commission in Volterra after Deposition, it is signed and dated in the lower left-hand corner. To the left of the Madonna and Child is John the Baptist in his camel-skin tunic and holding a cross, whilst to the left is Saint Bartholomew holding an open book and the knife used to flay him.
Cherub Playing a Lute or Musical Cherub is a 1521 oil on panel painting by Rosso Fiorentino, now in the Uffizi in Florence. It is signed "Rubeus Florentinus" and dated - though the date is unclear it probably reads 1521.
The Infant Saint John the Baptist is a c.1521 oil on panel painting by Rosso Fiorentino, now in a private collection in Florence. Stylistically close to the artist's Volterra Deposition, its nervy contour lines and gaunt brushstrokes are also similar to his Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist.
Portrait of a Young Man with a Helmet is a c.1520 oil on panel painting by Rosso Fiorentino, now in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. It is signed "Rubeus faciebat" on the edge of the armrest. Its subject is unknown, but may be the count of Anguillara, in whose home Rosso probably stayed in summer 1524.
Portrait of a Young Man is an oil on wood painting by Rosso Fiorentino, executed c. 1517–1518, now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.
Portrait of a Man is a c.1522 oil on panel painting by Rosso Fiorentino, now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Letter is an oil-on-panel painting by Rosso Fiorentino, executed in 1518, now in the National Gallery, London. It is dated 22 June 1518 on the letter held by the unidentified young man in black hat and clothes.
Portrait of a Young Man in Black is an oil on panel painting by Rosso Fiorentino, executed c. 1520, now in the Uffizi in Florence. Its present attribution was assigned by Antonio Natali, director of the Uffizi, replacing a previous attribution to Domenico Puligo.
Portrait of a Young Woman is a c. 1510 oil on canvas painting, usually attributed to Rosso Fiorentino, though Giovanni Larciani has also recently been suggested as its artist. It is now in the Uffizi in Florence. It is usually thought to be an early work by Rosso, produced before the frescos of the Chiostrino dei Voti at Santissima Annunziata, Florence, though its sharp style makes it hard to give a definite attribution to Rosso.
Woman with a Basket of Spindles is an oil on panel painting, executed c. 1514–1515, now in the Uffizi in Florence. It is attributed to Pontormo or Andrea del Sarto. The work arrived in the Palazzo Pitti's gallery in 1773, as recorded in a note on the reverse, and in 1784 it was hanging in the Sala dell'Ermafrodito. It was last restored in 1996.
Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist is an oil on panel painting by Pontormo, now in the Uffizi, whose Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe also houses a preparatory drawing for the work. The two theories on its dating are 1534-1536 and Antonio Natali's theory of 1529–1530.
