SALVIATI, Cecchino del
(b. 1510, Firenze, d. 1563, Roma)

Bathsheba Goes to King David

1552-54
Fresco
Palazzo Sacchetti, Rome

Salviati (Francesco de' Rossi), together with Bronzino and Vasari, belonged to the second generation of Mannerist painters in Florence. He was in the Sarto workshop about 1529 and later Vasari and he were together in Rome where the influence of Raphael and of sophisticated Raphael followers affected him deeply. He also gathered ideas from his travels through north Italy, in Mantua, Venice and probably Parma. His frescoes in the Palazzo Sacchetti in Rome are among his most Mannerist works.