Francesco Primaticcio was an Italian Mannerist painter, architect and sculptor who spent most of his career in France.
1648 woodcut portrait of Francesco Primaticcio
Odysseus and Penelope, 1563
Holy Family with St Elizabeth and John the Baptist, now in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia.
Alexander tames Bucephalus
Francis I was King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547. He was the son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy. He succeeded his first cousin once removed and father-in-law Louis XII, who died without a legitimate son.
Francis I, c. 1527–1530
Francis I painted in 1515
Francis I receiving the last breath of Leonardo da Vinci in 1519, by Ingres, painted in 1818
Francis's Château de Chambord displays a distinct French Renaissance architecture.