AMBROISE DUBOIS

WHO IS AMBROISE DUBOIS

• His full name is Ambroise DuBois
• He was born in Antwerp, Belgium
• He was born in 1542/43
• He died in 1614/15, he was 72/73
• He was one of the main artists in the Second School of Fontinbleau

BELGIUM

FRANCE

• He adopted France as his country when he was in his twenties (1563/64)
• He worked in the Fontainebleau Castle (hence the name school of Fontainbleau)
• The first school was mostly Italian artists like Michelangelo
• Artists of the second school also included Toussaint Dubreuil and Martin Fréminent

QUOTE

• In twenty years Dubreuil had mastered
• all the significant innovations of the Mannerists in Italy and France
• and not content with being their brilliant heir, he had achieved recognition —
• outshining Martin Fréminet and Ambroise Dubois—
• as the uncontested master of the Second School of Fontainebleau.