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Type in the cont =Niccolò dell' Abbate=

Experience
He was first recorded in 1537, contributing to the decoration of a public building in Modena known as the Beccherie.His fresco of //St. Geminianus//, patron of the city (Modena, Galleria Estense) is signed "Abati Nic." (thus disposing of the old theory that his name derived from his later collaboration with Primaticcio, who became an abbé in France); the style of the fresco is a simplistic interpretation of the softness and fluidity of Correggio combined with breadth and unusual lighting of Dosso Dossi.

The success of his altarpiece led Niccolò to try his luck in Bologna, where he soon received two important commissions for decorative frescoes.
These were Niccolò's achievements and influences when he was summoned to France to assist Primaticcio on the decoration of the royal chateau at Fontainebleau in 1552.

Interests
== dell' Abbate's transformation from a humbly derivative practitioner in an Italian backwater into one of the sophisticated arch-Mannerists of the School of Fontainebleau was as gradual as it was superficially complete; and yet from almost his earliest works his ability to achieve a charming novelty in congenial subjects is evident. ==