DETAILS
- Artist
- Rosso Fiorentino
- Date
- 1518
- Location
- National Gallery
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THE ARTIST
Rosso Fiorentino
Rosso Fiorentino, the 'Florentine Redhead,' was a pivotal Mannerist painter who brought his dramatic, stylized vision from Florence to the court of Francis I in France.
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