Luca Penni

Luca Penni (c.1500/1504–1556) was an Italian painter of the 16th century, best known for his work in France as part of the First School of Fontainebleau.

In the late 1520s, Penni worked with his brother-in-law Perino del Vaga in Genoa, settling into his own style before his stay at Fontainebleau.

They gave his Palace of Fontainebleau a daring, delicate and sophisticated Italian Renaissance style.

This was a legacy of the years he spent in Fontainebleau executing projects alongside Rosso and Primaticcio.

The evolution of his style paradoxically made him the inventor of French classicism derived from Italian mannerism.