Italian High Renaissance Painter, 1450-1517
He turned to painting c. 1485, and his first works already testify to the considerable technical accomplishment and gentle religious sensibility that remained constants of his art. His major surviving paintings are altarpieces, mostly images of the Virgin and saints, initially done for Bologna and later for nearby centres, notably Parma, Modena, Ferrara and Lucca. He also painted many small-scale devotional works and a few portraits. The apochryphal anecdote reported by Vasari that Francia died on seeing Raphael's altarpiece of St Cecilia Related Paintings of FRANCIA, Francesco :. | Madonna and Child with the Infant St John the Baptist dsh | Madonna and Saints whh | The Marriage of St Cecily sds | Adoration of the Child sdgh | Madonna and Saints (detail) gj | Related Artists: Bamboccio Haarlem 1592/95-1642 Will Frederick Foster American . 1882-1953
Ivan Aivazovski Russian artist .1817-1900