![]() ![]() Shortly thereafter, the Bolognese painter Francesco Primaticcio (1504/5–1570) arrived in France from Mantua. The Florentine artist had already established himself by working with important painters such as Perino del Vaga (1501–1547) in Rome. ![]() The first to arrive at Fontainebleau, in 1530, was Rosso Fiorentino (1494–1540). These artists brought with them the prevailing Mannerist style developed by painters such as Pontormo (1494–1556), and influenced by Michelangelo (1475–1564). Due to the sack of Rome by imperial armies in 1527, Francis was able to lure an unprecedented number of talented artists, architects, and artisans from Italy, and collectively they transformed a ruined country château into the king’s primary royal residence, a palace of grandeur and great embellishment known today as Fontainebleau. 1515–47) launched an aggressive campaign to restore a small, dilapidated hunting lodge in the Forest of Bièvre, forty miles southeast of Paris. Returning to his throne as king of France in 1527 after two years of captivity under the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Francis I (r. ![]()
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