Michele Tosini
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Michele Tosini (1503-1577) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance and Mannerist period, who worked in Florence.
He apprenticed initially with Lorenzo di Credi and Antonio del Ceraiolo, but then moved into the studio of Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, from whom he acquired the name Michele di Ridolfi or Michele Ghirlandaio. Tosini was a mentor to Bernardo Pocetti. After 1556, Tosini served as an assistant to Giorgio Vasari in the decoration of the Salone dei Cinquecento Palazzo Vecchio. He was also a notable portraitist.
He painted for the altar in the chapel at the Villa Caserotta (1561), near San Casciano Val di Pesa.
[edit] Sources
- Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). in Pelican History of Art: Painting in Italy, 1500-1600, p463 Penguin Books Ltd.
- Grove encyclopedia entry in Artnet
