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Giovanni Balducci, called Il Cosci after his maternal uncle, (c. 1560 — c. 1600) was an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 mannerist
Mannerism

Mannerism is a Art periods of European art which emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it, but continued into the seventeenth century throughout much of Europe....
 painter. Born in Florence
Florence

Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
, he was trained by Giovanni Battista Naldini
Giovanni Battista Naldini

Giovanni Battista Naldini was an Italy Painting of a late-Mannerism in Florence.His first apprenticeship was in the studio of Jacopo Pontormo....
. He is one of the collaborators under the supervision of Vasari and Federico Zuccari
Federico Zuccari

Federico Zuccari, also known as Federigo Zuccaro , was an Italy Mannerism Painting and architect, active both in Italy and abroad....
 on the massive (1575-1579), yet generally uninspired decoration of the dome of the cathedral of Florence, Santa Maria del Fiore
Santa Maria del Fiore

The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church of Florence, Italy, begun in 1296 in the Gothic architecture style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi....
. He also assisted Alessandro Allori
Alessandro Allori

Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori was an Italy portrait Painting of the late Mannerism Florence school.Born in Florence, in 1540, after the death of his father, he was brought up and trained in art by a close friend, often referred to as his 'uncle', the mannerist painter Agnolo Bronzino, whose name he sometimes ass...
 in decoration of Vasari's Gallery for the Uffizi
Uffizi

The Uffizi Gallery , one of the oldest and most famous art museums in the world, is housed in the Palazzo degli Uffizi, a palazzo in Florence, Italy, Italy....
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Giovanni Balducci, called Il Cosci after his maternal uncle, (c. 1560 — c. 1600) was an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 mannerist
Mannerism

Mannerism is a Art periods of European art which emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it, but continued into the seventeenth century throughout much of Europe....
 painter. Born in Florence
Florence

Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
, he was trained by Giovanni Battista Naldini
Giovanni Battista Naldini

Giovanni Battista Naldini was an Italy Painting of a late-Mannerism in Florence.His first apprenticeship was in the studio of Jacopo Pontormo....
. He is one of the collaborators under the supervision of Vasari and Federico Zuccari
Federico Zuccari

Federico Zuccari, also known as Federigo Zuccaro , was an Italy Mannerism Painting and architect, active both in Italy and abroad....
 on the massive (1575-1579), yet generally uninspired decoration of the dome of the cathedral of Florence, Santa Maria del Fiore
Santa Maria del Fiore

The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church of Florence, Italy, begun in 1296 in the Gothic architecture style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi....
. He also assisted Alessandro Allori
Alessandro Allori

Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori was an Italy portrait Painting of the late Mannerism Florence school.Born in Florence, in 1540, after the death of his father, he was brought up and trained in art by a close friend, often referred to as his 'uncle', the mannerist painter Agnolo Bronzino, whose name he sometimes ass...
 in decoration of Vasari's Gallery for the Uffizi
Uffizi

The Uffizi Gallery , one of the oldest and most famous art museums in the world, is housed in the Palazzo degli Uffizi, a palazzo in Florence, Italy, Italy....
. In 1590 he went to Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
, where he was taken under the protection of the Cardinal Alessandro de' Medici, by whom he was employed for some time. He was patronized, both in Florence and Rome, by the Medici Cardinal and later Pope Leo XI
Pope Leo XI

Pope Leo XI , born Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici, was Pope from April 1, 1605 to April 27 of the same year....
. He died in Naples.