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Niccolò dell' Abbate

 
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(born c. 1512, Modena, Duchy of Modena — died 1571, Fontainebleau, Fr.) Italian painter. He was trained in Modena and developed his mature style under the influence of his contemporaries Correggio and Parmigianino in Bologna (1544 – 52). There he painted portraits and decorated palaces with frescoes of landscapes and figure compositions in the Mannerist style. In 1552 he was invited by Henry II of France to work under Primaticcio at the Palace of Fontainebleau, where he executed immense murals (most now lost). He remained in France the rest of his life. His mythological landscapes were a principal source of the French Classical landscape tradition, and he was a precursor of Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin.

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Abbate or Abati, Niccolò dell' (nēk-kōlō' dĕl-läbbä'tā, -bä'tē), 1512?-1571, Italian mannerist painter. From c.1552 he assisted Primaticcio in the decorations at Fontainebleau. He was one of the first in France to paint landscapes. Among them is the Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice (c.1555) in the National Gallery, London.
 
 

 

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