Agostino Melissi

Agostino Melissi (1615 in Florence – 1683 in Florence) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence.

St Agnes

Biography

He was the pupil first of Matteo Rosselli, then of Giovanni Bilivert starting in 1634. He made cartoons of Andrea del Sarto paintings used to weave large tapestries in the Medicean Arrazeria.[1][2][3]

References
  1. The renaissance of art in Italy, by Leader Scott, and London (1883); page 330.
  2. Metropolitan Museum cartoon.
  3. Philadelphia Museum of Art, St Peter Weeping.


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