Everything about Francesco Primaticcio totally explained
Francesco Primaticcio (
april 30,
1504 –
1570) was an
Italian Mannerist painter,
architect and
sculptor who spent most of his career in
France.
Biography
Born in
Bologna, he trained under
Giulio Romano in
Mantua and became a pupil of
Innocenzo da Imola, executing decorations at the
Palazzo Te before securing a position in the court of
Francis I of France in 1532.
Together with
Rosso Fiorentino he was one of the leading artists to work at the
Chateau Fontainebleau (where he's 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 painters and stuccators of his team, such as
Nicolò dell'Abate, with designs. He made
cartoons for
tapestry-weavers and, like all 16th-century court artists, was called upon to design elaborate ephemeral decorations for
masques and fêtes, which survive only in preparatory drawings and, sometimes, engravings. François trusted his eye and sent him back to Italy on buying trips in 1540 and again in 1545. In Rome, part of Primaticcio's commission was to take casts of the best
Roman sculptures in the papal collections, some of which were cast in bronze to decorate the
parterres at Fontainebleau.
Primaticcio retained his position as court painter to François' heirs,
Henri II and
François II. His masterpiece, the
Salle d'Hercule at Fontainebleau, occupied him and his team from the 1530s to 1559.
Primaticcio's crowded Mannerist compositions and his long-legged canon of beauty influenced French art for the rest of the century.
Primaticcio turned to architecture towards the end of his life, his greatest work being the Valois Chapel at the
Abbey of Saint-Denis, although this wasn't completed until after his death and was destroyed in 1719.
Further Information
Get more info on 'Francesco Primaticcio'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://francesco_primaticcio.totallyexplained.com">Francesco Primaticcio Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
