# Decoration [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ROSSO FIORENTINO]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Stucco ## Commentary Rosso Fiorentino, summoned to France in 1530 at the instigation of Francis I, devised in 1534 a compartmented decoration, stuccoed and painted, for the gallery at Fontainebleau; he completed it, with the aid of numerous assistants, in 1536. Each compartment forms a self-contained composition. Framing the scene of Venus Scolding Cupid is an elaborate stucco ornament including strapwork scrolls, putti, baskets of fruit, and two graceful life-size, naked figures. At the top, in the center, appears the gilded royal emblem, the salamander. The soft, pliant modelling and the grace and femininity of the bodies are characteristic of the Fontainebleau school, representing the ideal of French Mannerism freed from the stamp of Italy. ## Related artworks - [A Young Man]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Betrothal of the Virgin]() - [Dead Christ with Angels]() - [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]() - [Gallery of Francis I]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()