Alessandro Rosi

Alessandro Rosi (28 December 1627 in Rovezzano [it] – 19 April 1697 in Florence) was an Italian artist, working during the Baroque period, for the Medicis and other patrons.

Rosi trained in the workshops of Jacopo Vignali and Cesare Dandini, along with other young Florentine artists such as Carlo Dolci.

[1] It seems that he undertook a study trip to Rome, where he saw the work of Simon Vouet and Giovanni Lanfranco.

In his early works the influence of his teacher Dandini can be seen, especially in the treatment of drapery, to which the latter always paid great attention.

He also made a series of ten designs for tapestries commissioned by Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.