Alessandro Rosi (1627-1697)

• Rosi was an Italian artist.
• Rosi trained in the workshops of Jacopo Vignali and Cesare Dandini, along with young Carlo Dolci.
• It seems that he undertook a study trip to Rome, where he saw the work of Simon Vouet and Giovanni Lanfranco.
• His biographer Baldinucci described him as having the extravagant temperament of an artist.
• Rosi enjoyed the patronage of Florentine families of the time, such as the Corsini or Rinuccini families
• He made a series of ten designs for tapestries commissioned by Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. • His foremost pupil was Alessandro Gherardini.
• He died at the age of seventy after being struck by a falling column while walking along the Via Condotta in Florence.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Alessandro Rosi, Self-portrait, c. 1640.
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