- Also known as
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Francesco Rosselli
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primary name: Rosselli, Francesco di Lorenzo
- Details
- individual; painter/draughtsman; printmaker; Florentine; Italian; Male
- Life dates
- 1448-c.1513
- Biography
- Engraver, miniaturist, painter and cartographer, brother of the painter Cosimo Rosselli. The principal engraver in Florence in the 1480s and 1490s. Probably died before 1513. The only signed and dated work is a 'Map of the World' (1506), the earliest printed planisphere to show the recent discoveries of the New World. But numerous engravings are attributed to him since Hind.
- Bibliography
- Suzanne Boorsch, 'The Case for Francesco Rosselli as the Engraver of Berlinghieri's Geographia', in "Imago Mundi" vol. 56, part 2 (2004), pp. 152-169
Sean Roberts, 'Print Quarterly' XXVIII 2011, pp.4-17, 'FR and Berlinghieri's 'Geographia' reconsidered'
Suzanne Boorsch, "Francesco Rosselli," in Arthur Blumenthal, ed., 'Cosimo Rosselli, Painter of the Sistine Chapel', Winter Park, FL, 2001, pp. 208-244
