Brief Biography-Francesco de’ Rossi, or later Cecchino del Salviati, was born in Florence in 1563. He took his second name from his patron Cardinal Giovanni Salviati. . He was a disciple of the mannerist painter Andrea del Sarto for three years. Salviati befriended Giorgio Vasari, whom he previously knew from studying with Baccio Bandinelli and with whom he collaborated in Bologna. He also worked in Venice and Rome before settling in Florence. There he painted the fresco about the tyrant Furius Camillus in the Palazzo Vecchio for Cosimo I de’ Medici. His contemporaries with whom he competed were Agnolo Bronzino and Jacopo Pontormo. He died in Rome in 1563.