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[Giovanni Battista di Jacopo Rosso] (b Florence, March 8, 1494; d ?Fontainebleau, Nov 14, 1540). Italian painter and draughtsman, active also in France. He was a major Florentine Mannerist (see Mannerism, §5), whose art is both elegant and emotionally intense. He was influential in Rome, and in Paris and Fontainebleau (see Fontainebleau school) became one of a group of Italian artists who were instrumental in pioneering a northern, more secular Mannerism. Rosso was either a pupil of Andrea del Sarto or he worked as an independent artist in del Sarto’s studio in Florence. Apparently he had studied art at an early age; he had copied Masaccio’s frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel in S Maria del Carmine, Florence, and Vasari noted that in 1513 he drew from Michelangelo’s cartoon of the Battle of Cascina (untraced). The other great pillar of Florentine Mannerism, Jacopo da Pontormo, was certainly a pupil in del Sarto’s studio. Arguably, Rosso’s early development was as much influenced by Pontormo (and vice versa) as it was by del Sarto himself....