The Salviati were a prominent Florentine-Roman family.
Salviati is a literary dialogue counterpart in Galileo's writings, named after Filipo Salviati. Galileo Galilei (February 15, 1564 – January 8, 1642) was an Italian physicist, astronomer, and philosopher who is closely associated with the scientific revolution. ...
The Salviati were a prominent Florentine-Roman family. They were known as instigators of the 1478Pazzi Conspiracy, during an age where they were bankers to Pope Sixtus IV to overthrow the Medici in Florence. One member of the family, the archbishop of Pisa, Francesco Salviati was involved in the plot. Events February 18 - George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is privately executed in the Tower of London. ... The Pazzi family were Tuscan nobles who had become bankers in Florence in the 14th century. ... Sixtus IV, born Francesco della Rovere (July 21, 1414 – August 12, 1484) was Pope from 1471 to 1484. ... The Medici coat of arms The Medici family was a powerful and influential Florentine family from the 13th to 17th century. ...
The painter Francesco Salviati is not part of this family, and assumed the name after painting frescoes for the Palazzo Salviati.
Salviati was born Francesco Rossi in Florence in 1510.
Salviati makes the statue of Juno a focus of his narrative in the Triumph of Camillus and has emphasised this fable of the statue being life-like and able to speak by representing her as an animated figure who seems to turn toward Camillus from their lofty positions above the crowds.
Salviati's narrative scenes accumulate the most learned and elaborate battery of archaeological reminiscence, as if for the edification of the Florentines who had not the advantage of a Roman education, and they are framed by allegories, no less learned, of almost hieroglyphic abstruseness.
For years Francesco was reprimanded by his father for spending his time in laboratories and workshops by day and taking solitary walks about the city by night.
Like his father, Francesco was fascinated with the applied sciences and was obsessed with the study of alchemy and medicine—the latter partly in order to treat his own melancholy, or chronic depression.
Francesco’s collections apparently outgrew the Studiolo quickly, and the room was dismantled in the late 16th century.
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