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Cecco Bravo, known as Francesco Montelatici, was born in Florence on 15 November 1601. He was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Bilivert of the court of Grand Duke Cosimo II de' Medici.
The painter's independent activity has been recorded since at least 1624, as can be seen from some citations from the tribunal of the Academy of Drawing, in which he begins to be mentioned as Cecco Bravo. Read the full biography

Cecco Bravo, known as Francesco Montelatici, was born in Florence on 15 November 1601. He was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Bilivert of the court of Grand Duke Cosimo II de' Medici.
The painter's independent activity has been recorded since at least 1624, as can be seen from some citations from the tribunal of the Academy of Drawing, in which he begins to be mentioned as Cecco Bravo. This name would refer to the concept of skill corresponding to a certain pride in one's painting characterized by executive mastery.
On 1 June 1660 Montelatici moved to Innsbruck to the court of Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria and Anna de' Medici, perhaps driven by a growing sense of extraneousness towards the Florentine artistic context.
He died on December 11, 1661, due to serious physical conditions.
Much of the artist's graphic production is preserved above all in the Cabinet of Drawings and Prints of the Uffizi, the Marucelliana Library in Florence, the Louvre in Paris and the National Gallery in Edinburgh. Mostly these are representations of male nudes, executed with rapid and fragmented strokes, often heavily chiaroscuro, in open disregard of drawing conventions.