Giovanni Battista di Iacopo (born with Florence in 1494 - died with Fontainebleau in 1540) known as Rosso Fiorentino because of the color of its hair, is an Italian painter.

Biography

Initially raises Maniériste Andrea del Sarto, like the Pontormo, its alter-ego in painting during many years, it enters in 1516 the corporation of the painters florentins of Académie of the drawing of Florence.

It is one of the initiators of the current mannerist which will mark a decisive turn in the art of the Italian Rebirth. In Tuscany, it carries out several important works, of which the Assomption of the Virgin (1517) to the cloister of Annunziata, the Deposition of Volterra (1521) and the Mariage of the Virgin for the church San Lorenzo in Florence (1523).

It is in Rome in 1524 and discovers Raphaël and its school whose Perino del Vaga, and also Parmigianino, and in 1527, at the time of the bag of the city by the army of Charles Quint, it is made prisoner. It succeeds in being made release in 1527, circulates then between Perugia, Borgo san Sepolcro, Città di Castello, Arezzo until 1530 when, in Venice, it is called at the court of king de France, François I {{er}} recommended by Pierre Arétin.

Into full Rebirth, this last appoints it painter of the king, canon of the Ste Chapelle, entrusts the decoration of the to him Château of Fontainebleau which it carries out with the house of Pomone, the house of Poesles, the Basse gallery (all destroyed) and especially the gallery François Ier (1534-1540), his masterpiece, a new decoration of fresco and stucco. It dies there in 1540.

Works

• Climbs di Maria (1517), fresco of the cycle of the Storie della Vergine , Basilica della Santissima Annunziata
• Madonna idiot quattro santi (1518), Uffizi, Florence
• Madonna collar Bambino sant' Elisabetta (or sant' Anna?) E san Giovannino (1520), Country Museum off Art, Los Angeles
• Deposizione di Cristo (1521), Galleria Communal, Volterra
• Madonna idiot due santi (1521), Chiesa Parrocchiale, Villamagna
• Madonna idiot dieci santi (1522), Palatine Gallery, Florence
• Mosè difende the figlie di Jetro , Uffizi, Florence
• Lo sposalizio della Vergine (1523), San Lorenzo, Florence
• I peccati (1524), church Santa Maria della Pace, Rome
• Eva (1524), church Santa Maria della Pace, Rome
• Cristo idiot angeli (1524-1527), Museum of the Art schools of Boston
• Deposizione (1528), church San Lorenzo, Sansepolcro
• Pala of altare, Duomo of Città di Castello
• Leda E it Cigno (1530), Royal Academy, London
• Pietà (1537-1540), Museum of Louvre, Paris

Internal bonds

• Giorgio Vasari quotes it and describes its biography in Quickly the
• Pascale Climent-Delteil: It Rosso Fiorentino pittore beyond Will handle , Presses University of the Mediterranean, Montpellier, 2007 -.

External bonds

• the dead '' Christ '' of Rosso Fiorentono, with the museum of Louvre

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