# Royal Elephant [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ROSSO FIORENTINO]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary Rosso's greatest project was the decoration of the Galerie François I \(in situ\) at the château of Fontainebleau, the plan for which was conceived in 1532, and the stuccowork and painting carried out under Rosso's supervision from 1536 to 1539. Allegorical, mythological and occasionally historical frescoes, celebrating the power of the King, are framed by extravagant stucco grotesqueries - scrolls, armoury, trophies, garlands, goddesses, nymphs and putti - and employ a technique probably brought by Primaticcio from Mantua, where he had worked at the Palazzo del Tè. Although Rosso probably expected to provide all 16 principal frescoes, the gallery has only 12, including the Royal Elephant, a complex allegorical tribute to the King.ng. ## Related artworks - [A Young Man]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Betrothal of the Virgin]() - [Dead Christ with Angels]() - [Decoration]() - [Deposition from the Cross \(detail\)]() - [Deposition from the Cross]() - [Descent from the Cross \(detail\)]() - [Descent from the Cross \(detail\)]() - [Descent from the Cross \(detail\)]() - [Descent from the Cross]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()