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Rosa (i).
Italian family of painters. The brothers Cristoforo Rosa (b Brescia, 1517–18; d Brescia, before 1579) and Stefano Rosa (b Brescia, 1524–5; d after 1572) appear to have undertaken all their major works in partnership. They were renowned in the 16th century as masters of illusionistic ceiling decorations on a large scale, particularly in Venice and Brescia, and exercised an important influence on the development of Baroque ceiling painting. Their skill attracted favourable notice from many of the major writers on the visual arts in the 16th and 17th centuries, including Giorgio Vasari, and the innovative nature of their methods won particular praise from Cristoforo Sorte (1580) and Gioseffe Viola Zanini (1629).
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