Rosso Fiorentino (Giovanni Battista di Jacopo di Gasparre)

Italian Artist · 1494–1540

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With his friend Jacopo Pontormo, also a pupil of the renowned Renaissance master Andrea del Sarto, Rosso Fiorentino pioneered Mannerism in Florentine painting. Rosso's early paintings display Andrea's and Fra Bartolommeo's influence while showcasing the characteristic stylization, high-pitched emotion, and dissonant colors so antithetical to Renaissance classicism. In Rome by 1524, Rosso was deepl