Francesco Morandini (c. 1544–1597)

• Was an Italian painter active in Florence.
• He was also called il Poppi after his native town.
• He was a pupil of Vincenzo Borghini.
• Later he was Giorgio Vasari's assistant for many years.

• He participated in the Vincenzo Borghini and Giorgio Vasari-directed decoration of the Studiolo of Francesco I with two canvases: one relating a Alexander and Campaspe (1571) and the other depicting a Foundry (1572).

• He also painted an altarpiece on the Tobias and the Angel for the church of San Francesco in Prato.

• In 1584–1585, he worked in the Salviati Chapel in San Marco alongside Giovanni Battista Naldini and others.

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