(b Modena, 1509–12; d ?Fontainebleau, 1571). Italian painter and draughtsman. He was one of the most important artists of the first FONTAINEBLEAU SCHOOL, which was developed at the French court by Rosso Fiorentino and Francesco Primaticcio, and he introduced the Italian Mannerist landscape into France.

• Abate, Nicolò dell'
  • Fontainebleau, §1(i): Château, before 1610
  • France, §III, 2: Painting and graphic arts, c 1450–c 1620
  • France, §XII, 3: Patronage: 16th and 17th centuries
  • Illusionism, §2(i)(a): Large-scale projects, c 1450–c 1600
  • attributions
    • Bedoli, Girolamo Mazzola
    • Este (i): (15) Alfonso III d’Este
    • Fontainebleau school, §2(iv): First school: Influence
  • collaboration
    • France, §V, 1: Interior decoration, before 1589
    • Primaticcio, Francesco, §2: After c 1540
  • groups and movements
    • Fontainebleau school
    • Fontainebleau school, §1: Introduction
    • Fontainebleau school, §2(v): First Fontainebleau school: Later developments
  • interior decoration
    • Mythological painting and sculpture, §3: The Renaissance, c 1400–c 1595
    • Paris, §III, 2: Art life and organization, 1500–1714
  • paintings
    • frescoes
      • Bologna, §II, 2: Art life and organization, after c 1400
      • Château, §2: Renaissance
      • Ekphrasis, §4: Ekphrasis in the Renaissance West
    • genre
      • Genre, §3(ii): The 16th century: Italy
    • landscape
      • Italy, §III, 4(iv): High Renaissance & Mannerist painting, c 1500–c 1600: Other schools & artists
      • Landscape painting, §II, 4(iii): 16th century: Italy
  • patrons and collectors
    • Peiresc, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de
    • Valois, House of: (16) Catherine de’ Medici, Queen of France
  • reproductive prints by others
    • Thulden, Theodoor van, §1(i): Early career in Antwerp and France, 1621–33
  • tapestries
    • France, §XI, 1(iii): Tapestry, c 1530–1657