Tommaso Redi (22 December 1665 – 10 October 1726) was an Italian painter, active during the late-Baroque in his original Florence.
He initially apprenticed similar to the Florentine painter Anton Domenico Gabbiani (1652–1726), and subsequently moved to Rome to decree in the Medici Academy in that city, which employed Carlo Maratti and Ciro Ferri as teachers. He returned to Florence to paint in the Palazzo Pitti and also was a respected portrait painter. When the Czar Peter visited Florence, he was particularly struck subsequently the works of Redi, and subconscious desirous of establishing an academy for the publicity of the Good arts at Moscow, attempted to have Redi control the academy, but the latter did not accept the offer. Redi died at Florence.
Among his pupils were Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (1692–1768) and Giuseppe Grisoni (1700–1769).
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