c. 1513<\/p>\n
Vasari, 1550, 796, in the \u201cLife\u201d of Rosso: \u201cDisegn\u00f2 il Rosso nella sua giovanezza al cartone di Michele Agnolo…\u201d\u00a0 In the \u201cLife\u201d of Rosso this is the earliest reference to his artistic activity.\u00a0 Vasari, 1568, II, 205 (Vasari-Milanesi, V, 156), the same.\u00a0 Vasari, 1550, 957, in the \u201cLife\u201d of Michelangelo, includes Rosso\u2019s name in the list of those artists who studied Michelangelo\u2019s cartoon of the Battle of Cascina<\/i> after it had been moved to the Sala del Papa at S. Maria Novella.\u00a0 Vasari, 1568, III, 726, the same.\u00a0 Vasari, 1568, III, 425 (Vasari-Milanesi, VI, 137), in the \u201cLife\u201d of Bandinelli Vasari says that \u201cil Rosso ancor che giovane\u201d drew from the cartoon.\u00a0 Although this reference, as well as the mention of other artists who had drawn from the cartoon, appears in the context of Bandinelli\u2019s having studied it in the Palazzo Vecchio after it had been returned there from the Sala del Papa, the actual location where these artists studied it is not specified here.\u00a0 The cartoon was moved to the Sala del Papa in late 1512 and remained there until around November 1515 when it was returned to the Palazzo Vecchio (see Tolnay, I, 1943, 210-211).\u00a0 Given what Vasari says in his \u201cLife\u201d of Michelangelo, it is most likely that Rosso did in fact study the cartoon in the Sala del Papa.\u00a0 This would probably have been in 1513, shortly before he painted his Madonna and Child with St. John the Evangelist<\/i> (Fig.P.2Aa<\/a>), which shows the influence of Michelangelo\u2019s nudes in the complex picture of the Christ Child.\u00a0 One might also assume that his study of the cartoon took place before he began the Assumption<\/i> at the Annunziata, the first payment of which was made in November 1513.<\/p>\n No copies of Michelangelo\u2019s cartoon by Rosso have as yet been recognized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" c. 1513 Vasari, 1550, 796, in the \u201cLife\u201d of Rosso: \u201cDisegn\u00f2 il Rosso nella sua giovanezza al cartone di Michele Agnolo…\u201d\u00a0 In the \u201cLife\u201d of Rosso this is the earliest reference to his artistic activity.\u00a0 Vasari, 1568, II, 205 (Vasari-Milanesi, V, 156), the same.\u00a0 Vasari, 1550, 957, in the \u201cLife\u201d of Michelangelo, includes Rosso\u2019s name […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":826,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7739","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7739"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8514,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7739\/revisions\/8514"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}