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Mannerist centers in Italy were Rome, Florence and Mantua.

Venetian painting, in its separate " school ," pursued a separate course, represented in the long career of Titian.

A number of the earliest Mannerist artists who had been working in Rome during the 1520s fled the city after the Sack of Rome in 1527.

As they spread out across the continent in search of employment, their style was distributed throughout Italy and Europe.

The result was the first international artistic style since the Gothic.

Other parts of Northern Europe did not have the advantage of such intense contact with Italian artists, but the Mannerist style made its presence felt through prints and illustrated books, the purchases of Italian works by rulers, and others, artists ' travels to Italy, and the example of individual Italian artists working in the North is called Northern Mannerism.

In particular Francis I of France was presented with Bronzino's Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time.