Nicol? dell'Abate

(b Modena, 1509-12; d ?Fontainebleau, 1571). Italian painter and draughtsman. He was one of the most important artists of the first FONTAINEBLEAU SCHOOL, which was developed at the French court by Rosso Fiorentino and Francesco Primaticcio, and he introduced the Italian Mannerist landscape into France.

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