(b Florence, 1510; d Rome, 11 Nov. 1563). Florentine Mannerist painter, a pupil of Andrea del Sarto. In about 1530 he moved to Rome and he adopted the name by which he is now known from his main patron there, Cardinal Giovanni Salviati; he lodged in the cardinal's palace and it was for him that he painted the work that established his reputation—the fresco of the Visitation (1538) in S. Giovanni Decollato. In 1539 he moved to Venice, but he had left the city by 1541; the rest of his career was mainly divided between Rome and Florence, but he also worked in France in 1556–7. Salviati was one of the leading fresco decorators of his day, specializing in learned and elaborate multi-figure compositions, typically Mannerist in their artificiality and abstruseness, and similar in style to those of his friend Vasari.