Rosso, Giovanni Battista (di Jacopo)

known as Rosso Fiorentino

(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 Jacopo da Pontormo, with whom he became a leading figure in the development of 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 Fontainebleau school, and the ornamental style he developed influenced decorative arts across northern Europe. He remained in the royal service until his death.

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