Francesco Morandini (c. 1544–1597) was an Italian painter active in

Florence Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in Metropolitan City of Florence, its metropolitan province as of 2025. Florence ...

, working in a

Mannerist Mannerism is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, when the Baroque style largely replaced it ...

style. He was also called il Poppi after his native town. He was a pupil of

Vincenzo Borghini Vincenzo Borghini (29 October 1515 – 15 August 1580) was an Italian monk, artist, philologist, and art collector of Florence, Italy. Biography Vincenzo Borghini was born at Florence in 1515 of a noble family, and was ordained a Benedic ...

, and later he was

Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer who is best known for his work ''Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects'', considered the ideol ...

's assistant for many years. He participated in the

and

-directed decoration of the

Studiolo of Francesco I The Studiolo is a small painting-encrusted barrel-vaulted room in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy. It was commissioned by Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. It was completed for the duke from 1570 to 1572, by teams of artists unde ...

with two canvases: one relating a ''Alexander and Campaspe'' (1571) and the other depicting a ''Foundry'' (1572). He also painted an altarpiece on the ''Tobias and the Angel'' for the church of San Francesco in

Prato Prato ( ; ) is a city and municipality (''comune'') in Tuscany, Italy, and is the capital of the province of Prato. The city lies in the northeast of Tuscany, at an elevation of , at the foot of Monte Retaia (the last peak in the Calvana ch ...

. In 1584–1585, he worked in the ''Salviati Chapel'' in

San Marco San Marco is one of the six sestiere (Venice), sestieri of Venice, lying in the heart of the city as the main place of Venice. San Marco also includes the island of San Giorgio Maggiore. Although the district includes Piazza San Marco, Saint Mar ...

alongside Giovanni Battista Naldini and others; his contribution is a canvas of ''Christ healing the Lepers''.

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* 1540s births 1597 deaths People from the Province of Arezzo 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Tuscany Italian Mannerist painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub