Giovanni, but this work is executed in the old manner, with the figures on the points of their feet, as was the custom with the painters who lived at the time of Bartolommeo da Bergamo.[1]
THE FLORENTINE PAINTER, COSIMO ROSSELLI.
[born 1439—died about 1506.]
There are many who find an unworthy pleasure in casting ridicule and contempt on others, but these, for the most part, turn to their own confusion, as happened in the case of Cosimo Rosselli, by whom the scorn with which certain artists treated his works was thrown back on their own heads.[2] Now this Cosimo, though he was not among the eminent or distinguished painters of his day, yet his works are, upon the whole, moderately good.[3] In his youth he painted a picture in the church of Sant’ Ambrogio, in Florence, which is on the right hand of the entrance, with three figures, for the nuns of San Jacopo delle Murate.[4] He also worked in the church of the Servites (likewise in Florence), where he painted the altar-piece for the chapel of Santa Barbara,[5] and in the first court, before entering the
- ↑ Of this painter, Vasari makes further mention in the life of Vittore Carpaccio, where he calls him Giromin Morzone. Zanetti, Della Pittura Veneziana, describes the picture above-named, on which he read the name Giacomo Morazzone, with the following words, a laura questo lavorier;” and from the Milanese dialect thus used by the painter, Zanetti concludes him to have been one of the ‘‘.Lombarden,” cited in the text. Baglioni, Vite de' Pittori, mentions a Lombard painter, whom he calls Pier Francesco Morazzone.
- ↑ See p. 176.
- ↑ Baldinucci considers Cosimo Rosselli, a disciple of Alesso Baldovinetti; but Nero di Bicci, in his Ricordi, speaks of him as a scholar of his own, as was also a certain Bernardo di Stefano Rosselli, cousin of Cosimo. —Ed. Flor., 1838 and 1849.
- ↑ These works are supposed to be lost, although the later Florentine commentators believe themselves to have discovered the first-mentioned in an Assumption of the Virgin, on the third altar of St. Ambrogio on the left of the entrance.
- ↑ This picture, which is certainly not beautiful, represents the saint trampling on a warrior under her feet. This figure represents her father,
