Francesco Salviati (painter)

His mature style has Mannerist contortions and crowded scenes similar to the output of Giulio Romano.

In 1538 he joined Jacopino del Conte, completing a fresco of the Visitation[3] for the Oratory of San Giovanni Battista Decollato in Rome, the church of a Florentine fraternity ministering to persons who had been condemned to execution.

Salviati painted in Bologna in 1540 alongside Vasari, and stayed for a brief time in Venice, where he frescoed decorations for the Palazzo Grimani di Santa Maria Formosa in an antique style.

He also designed tapestry cartoons for the recently established Arazzeria, including Ecce Homo, the Resurrection, and Joseph explains the Pharaoh's dreams.

The latter commission was awarded after a competition, which pitted him against his contemporary Florentine Mannerists Bronzino and Pontormo.