Francis I bestowing titles to a canonry in Notre Dame to Rosso Fiorentino for his work at Fontainbleu. Francis I, 1494 - 1547. King of France. Giovanni Battista di Jacopo, 1495 - 1540, aka Rosso Fiorentino or Il Rosso. Italian Mannerist painter in oil and fresco. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.