Domenico (di Giovanni) Rosselli
(b in or nr Pistoia, c. 1439; d Fossombrone, Marches, 1497-8). Italian sculptor. Works attributed to the earliest period of his career markedly exhibit the influence of Florentine art of the mid-15th century, and it is clear that his initial training was within the environs of Florence, probably in the workshop of Bernardo Rossellino and Antonio Rossellino. He appears to have worked at S Petronio in Bologna in 1460-61, and then in Pisa in 1462, but by the late 1460s he was working in and around Florence. His baptismal font ornamented with stone reliefs in S Maria in Monte, near Empoli, was executed in 1468 and is his only securely dated work from this period. A marble tondo Nativity of slightly later date in the Palazzo Budini-Gattai, Florence, closely recalls, in details of its landscape and surface treatment, Rosselli's earlier oeuvre; however, it also resembles Antonio Rossellino's Nativity for the altar of S Anna dei Lombardi, Naples (1470-75), and may be a copy of it.
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