Francesco Primaticcio
Videos
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.
Ulysses and His Companions Fighting the Cicones Before the City of Ismaros, Study for a destroyed fresco in the Galerie d'Ulysee, Chateau de Fontainebleau
School of Fontainebleau
Videos
The School of Fontainbleau refers to two periods of artistic production in France during the late French Renaissance centered on the royal Palace of Fontainebleau that were crucial in forming Northern
Francesco Primaticcio
…Together with Rosso Fiorentino he was one of the leading artists to work at the Chateau Fontainebleau (where he is grouped with the so-called "First School of Fontainebleau") spending much of his life there. Following Rosso's death in 1540, Primaticcio took control of the artistic direction at Fontainebleau, furnishing the…
Diana the Huntress - School of Fontainebleau, 1550–1560, (Louvre)
Etching by Antonio Fantuzzi, copying a drawing for this stucco and paint surround at the Palace of Fontainebleau
The Enlightenment of Francois I by Rosso Fiorentino, and its surround in the Gallery of Francois I in the palace. A preparatory drawing is copied in the print above.
Portrait of Gabrielle d'Estrées and Duchess of Villars, School of Fontainebleau, c.1594