Rosso Fiorentino
![Il Rosso, by Giorgio Vasari](/Images/godic/202502/08/Houghton_Typ_525_68.864_-_Vasari,_Le_vite_-_Il_Rosso0358.jpg")
![Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro by Rosso Fiorentino (c.1523) at the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.](/Images/godic/202502/08/Rosso_Fiorentino_0050358.jpg")
![Rosso Fiorentino. Deposition. 1521. Oil on wood. 375 × 196 cm. Pinacoteca Comunale di Volterra, Italy.](/Images/godic/202502/08/Rosso_Fiorentino_0020358.jpg")
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Giovanni Battista di Jacopo (8 March 1495 in Gregorian style, or 1494 according to the calculation of times in Florence where the year began on 25 March – 14 November 1540), known as Rosso Fiorentino (meaning "red Florentine" in Italian), or Il Rosso, was an Italian Mannerist painter, in oil and fresco, belonging to the Florentine school.