First School of Fontainebleau (from 1531):
Rosso Fiorentino, Francesco Primaticcio, Niccolo dell'Abbate
Second School of Fontainebleau (from 1594):
Ambroise Dubois, Toussaint Dubreuil, Martin Freminet
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School of Fontainebleau
there were two Schools; the First, under Francis I c.1528-58 was fundamentally Mannerist, directly influenced by expatriate Italian masters. The Second, under Henry IV (1589-1610) was more mediocre.
[edit] Rosso Fiorentino and the School of Fontainebleau
Rosso Fiorentino, who had been a fellow-pupil of Pontormo in the studio of Andrea del Sarto, brought Florentine mannerism to Fontainebleau in 1530, ...
The court workshop established at the Chateau de Fontainebleau became an important center, known as the school of Fontainebleau.
Primaticcio (d. 1570) who became the head of the school of Fontainebleau in 1541, and created the new canon of form, more elongated, which was subsequently adopted by French artists (room of the Duchesse d'Etampes).
Francis I's School of Fontainebleau). Nevertheless, Mannerist art is inconceivable without the Classical ideals of the Renaissance (whether to flout deliberately or to exaggerate) and those ideals continued to exert a powerful influence on artists, ...
 See also: School, Classic, Renaissance, Painting, Roman
  
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