Primaticcio was the most influential Italian artist in France in the 16th century. Together with Rosso Fiorentino they created a style of mixing stucco decoration with mannerist paintings that became known as the Fontainebleau school. Italian painter, architect and sculptor. Comment on works: Religious; Allegory; History.

Primaticcio, Francesco

Biography

Artworks

The Trojans hauling the wooden horse into Troy

Two Nymphs Carrying a Third

Concourse of the Gods on Mount Olympus

Apelles Painting Alexander and Campaspe

Women spinning, weaving and sewing

Banquet of Alexander

Three Muses and a Putto with Cymbals, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Ulysses Gallery (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau

Three Muses and a Putto with a Lyre

Three Muses and a Gesturing Putto

Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Sistine Frescoes

Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Romulus and Remus Building the Walls of Rome

Sibyl seated before an open book upon which she rests her left hand, she twists her face away from the book and holds a vessel in her right hand

Hercules, Bacchus, Pan, and another god seated on a cloud under an arch, an oval composition, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Ulysses Gallery (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau

Apollo, Neptune, Pluto, and Athena seated on a cloud under an arch, an oval composition, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Ulysses Gallery (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau

Juno and two goddesses reclining on clouds with two child figures and fruits at right, an oval composition, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Ulysses Gallery (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau

Venus and Cupid and two other goddesses seated on a cloud under an arch and accompanied by a putto, an oval composition, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Ulysses Gallery (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau

Three Muses seated below a flying putto who grasps a lyre with both hands, a cruciform composition, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Gallery of Ulysses (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau

Three Muses seated underneath a flying putto who gestures downward, a cruciform composition, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Ulysses Gallery (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau

Mars Seated Amid Trophies

Jupiter and Antiope

Two Gods on a Cloud

Jupiter and Callisto

Vulcan's Forge

The Wounded Paris Carried from the Field of Battle