Raphael's former associate il Baviera, who probably acted as his "publisher", introduced him to Rosso Fiorentino, with whom he collaborated on numerous prints, including sets of The Labours of Hercules (Bartsch 44–49), Pagan Divinities in Niches (Bartsch 24–43) and Loves of the Gods (Bartsch 9-23).
As temporary head of the paintings department while also serving as the museum's director, he added notable works to the collection such as Rosso Fiorentino'sDead Christ with Angels and the anonymous fifteenth-century Flemish Martyrdom of Saint Hippolytus.
Strapwork was found earlier, but really came to prominence after it was used in stucco in the enormous elaborate decorative frames designed by Rosso Fiorentino for the Palace of Fontainebleau in the 1530s.
In connection with its negation of spatial depth by compressing figures into the foreground, the early Florentine Mannerists—Rosso Fiorentino, Pontormo and Parmigianino—are mentioned, as well two paintings by Tintoretto: the Crucifixion and the Resurrection of Lazarus, the latter because of the horizontal row of spectators behind the miracle.
Rosso Fiorentino | Fiorentino | Sesto Fiorentino | Sergio Fiorentino | Porco Rosso | Montelupo Fiorentino | Tony Fiorentino | Renzo Rosso | Linda Fiorentino | Julee Rosso | Calcio Fiorentino | Rosso Fiorentino's | Nini Rosso | Melissa Fiorentino | Castiglion Fiorentino | ''Battle between Hercules and Centaurs'', engraving from the ''The Labours of Hercules'' after Rosso Fiorentino |
He joined the studio of Italian artists who worked with Primaticcio and Rosso Fiorentino at Fontainebleau and Meudon.
Duvet's work was produced, like that of Rosso and Pontormo in the Florence of the 1520s, in an urban atmosphere of religious excitement, since the town of Langres was in the grip of an enthusiastic and emotional Catholic revival at the time.
Rosso Fiorentino, who had been a fellow pupil of Pontormo in the studio of Andrea del Sarto, in 1530 brought Florentine mannerism to Fontainebleau, where he became one of the founders of French 16th-century Mannerism, popularly known as the "School of Fontainebleau".