Francesco Francia
Paintings
Madonna and Child with Two Angels
Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Jerome
Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Jerome
The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Other Saints
The Saint Anne Altarpiece from San Frediano, Lucca
The Virgin and Child with Two Saints
Drawings
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
Composition with three figures
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Francesco Raibolini (1447 – January 5, 1517), called Francia, was an Italian painter, goldsmith, and medallist from Bologna, who was also director of the city mint.[1][2]
He may have trained with Marco Zoppo and was first mentioned as a painter in 1486. His earliest known work is the Felicini Madonna, which is signed and dated 1494. He worked in partnership with Lorenzo Costa, and was influenced by Ercole de' Roberti's and Costa's style, until 1506, when Francia became a court painter in Mantua, after which time he was influenced more by Perugino and Raphael. He himself trained Marcantonio Raimondi and several other artists; he produced niellos, in which Raimondi first learnt to engrave, soon excelling his master, according to Vasari. Raphael's Santa Cecilia is supposed to have produced such a feeling of inferiority in Francia that it caused him to die of depression. However, as his friendship with Raphael is now well-known, this story has been discredited.
Death of Francesco Francia, in front of the "Saint Cecilia" of Raffaello Sanzio
He died in Bologna. His sons Giacomo Francia and Giulio Francia were also artists. Among his works is a Baptism of Christ in Lisbon.[3]
References
Levinson:492
Jameson (December 29, 1866). "Lives of the Early Painters: Francesco Raibolini, Called Il Francia". The American Art Journal (1866–1867) 6 (10): 152–153.
Gulbenkian Art Museum in Lisbon, Portugal.
Sources
Giorgio Vasari: Le vite dei più eccellenti architetti, pittori et scultori italiani, Florence 1568
George C. Williamson: Francesco Raibolini, called Francia", London 1901
Giuseppe Piazzi: Le Opere di Francesco Raibolini, detto il Francia, orefice e pittore. Azzoguidi, Bologna 1925
Emilio Negro, Nicosetta Roio: Francesco Francia e la sua scuola. Artioli Editore, Modena 1998, ISBN 8877920572
Sally Hickson: Giovanni Francesco Zaninello of Ferrara and the portrait of Isabella d'Este by Francesco Francia, Renaissance Studies Vol. 23 No. 3 (2009), S. 288–310
Further Reading
Pope-Hennessy, John & Kanter, Laurence B. (1987). The Robert Lehman Collection I, Italian Paintings. New York, Princeton: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Princeton University Press. ISBN 0870994794. (see index; plate 91)
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