1462-
1521 A
Renaissance painter that worked for the
Medici family and
painted part of the
Sistine Chapel 30 years before
Michelangelo. He used both
tempera and
oil paints. His paintings tend to be
symmetrical with carefully rendered
figures. He also
created a distinction between
foreground and
backround that
artists of previous generations had been unable to accomplish.
He was a
student of
Cosimo Roselli from whom he got his last name.