known as Rosso Fiorentino or Il Rosso
born March 8, 1495, Florence, Republic of Florence
died Nov. 14, 1540, Paris, Fr.
Italian painter and decorator.
He trained under Andrea del Sarto , alongside Mannerism . In his later work, the highly charged emotionalism of his early works (e.g., the Assumption fresco, 1513–14, in Florence's Santissima Annunziata) is more subdued; his new style is seen in his Dead Christ with Angels (1525–26). In 1530 he went to France at the invitation of Francis I ; there he became a founder of the {{link=Fontainebleau, school of">Fontainebleau school , and the ornamental style he developed influenced decorative arts across northern Europe. He remained in the royal service until his death.