Francesco Salviati

Francesco Salviati
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(1510–1563) Italian painter (1510–1563)

Francesco Salviati (1510–1563) is listed in the catalogue as a painter, a draughtsman, and a designer. By year of birth, Francesco Salviati belongs to the chapter ‘Mannerism’ in this site’s history of art.

Francesco Salviati was born in Florence and died in Rome. The teachers included Dionigi da Diacetto, Giuliano Bugiardini, and Baccio Baldini. Francesco Salviati worked in Rome, Florence, Bologna, and Venice. Wikidata associates Francesco Salviati with Mannerism. The students included Bernardo Buontalenti.

The best-known works include ‘Charity’, ‘The Incredulity of Saint Thomas’, ‘Stories of David’, and ‘Adoration of the sheperds’. The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has 39 works by Francesco Salviati with free images. The dated works span the years 1500–1600. Works by Francesco Salviati are held by several collections, among them Nationalmuseum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, drawings in the National Gallery of Art, and Département des peintures du Louvre.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Hendrik Bles, Giovanni Battista Franco, Mirza Ali, Mir Sayyid Ali, and Carlo Portelli.