Madonna and Child with Cherubs
Rosso Fiorentino · 1517
Rosso Fiorentino
Italy · 1494–1540
Giovanni Battista di Jacopo, known as Rosso Fiorentino (meaning "Florentine Redhead" in Italian) or Il Rosso ("The Redhead"), was an Italian Mannerist painter who worked in oil and fresco and belonged to the Florentine school.
Known works
Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro
Rosso Fiorentino · 1523
Uffizi Gallery
Moses Defends Jethro's Daughters is an oil on canvas painting attributed to Italian artist Rosso Fiorentino, created c. 1523 to 1524, now held in the Uffizi in Florence, which acquired it in 1632. It depicts the Biblical episode when Moses defended the seven daughters of Jethro, who would be his father-in-law.
Angel Playing the Lute
Rosso Fiorentino · 1518
Uffizi Gallery
Cherub Playing a Lute or Musical Cherub is a 1521 oil on panel painting by Rosso Fiorentino, now in the Uffizi in Florence. It is signed "Rubeus Florentinus" and dated - though the date is unclear it probably reads 1521. It entered the Tribuna of the Uffizi on 29 June 1605, at which date it had its present attribution.
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