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| Francesco Salviati Annunciation ca. 1533 oil on panel Chiesa di San Francesco a Ripa Grande, Rome |
"Francesco de' Rossi, called Il Salviati, born in Florence in 1510, was the earliest and the most convinced of the converts to a Roman ideal of Maniera. In Florence Salviati had been a pupil, in succession, of [Giuliano] Bugiardini, of [Baccio] Bandinelli (in whose school he encountered his young contemporary, [Giorgio] Vasari), and then briefly of Raffaelle Brescianino; and in 1529-30, until [Andrea del] Sarto's death, he was in his shop. The Florentine experience was, as this list of teachers indicates, extensive, but it was not decisive. In 1531 he was joined in Rome by his friend Vasari, who tells how avidly both devoted themselves to the study of the artistic riches that they found there. Francesco's gifts included a facility far in excess of Giorgio's and he was more precocious; but beyond this he was much nearer to possessing a creative genius. He very quickly found Roman patronage, especially from other Florentines then resident in Rome, such as [Bindo] Altoviti and Filippo Sergardi, but his early fresco works for them are lost. His first surviving Roman piece is an Annunciation (Rome, S. Francesco a Ripa) of ca. 1533. The marks of Florentine education are still clearly discernible in it, but it is more evident that Salviati is in rapid process of assimilation of a Roman style. His primary model is one which represented now, only half a decade later than the Sack, post-Raphaelesque modernity: the mode formed before the Sack by Perino del Vaga. There is no direct approach to Raphael (and none to Michelangelo, despite a study of him we can document in drawings); Salviati grafted himself directly on to the posts-Raphaelesque development of a Maniera."
– S.J. Freedberg from Painting in Italy - 1500 to 1600 in the Pelican History of Art series (London, 1971)
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| Francesco Salviati after Michelangelo Dawn (sculpture from the Tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici, Basilica di San Lorenzo, Florence) ca. 1540 drawing British Museum |
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| Francesco Salviati after Michelangelo Figures from the Drunkenness of Noah (fresco on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Rome) ca. 1534-35 drawing British Museum |
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| Francesco Salviati The Deposition ca. 1535 fresco Chiesa di Santa Maria dell'Anima, Rome |
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| Francesco Salviati The Deposition ca. 1535 fresco Chiesa di Santa Maria dell'Anima, Rome |
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| Francesco Salviati Study of Torso undated drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Francesco Salviati Study of Leg undated drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Francesco Salviati Figure Study undated drawing Harvard Art Museums |
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| Francesco Salviati Lamentation ca. 1539-41 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Francesco Salviati Madonna and Child with Angel ca. 1535-40 oil on panel National Gallery of Canada |
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| Francesco Salviati Holy Family with St John the Baptist and Angel with Bird ca. 1543 oil on panel Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Francesco Salviati Madonna and Child undated oil on panel Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence |
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| Francesco Salviati Holy Family undated drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Francesco Salviati Reclining Female Figure undated drawing British Museum |