Battista Franco Veneziano

Giovanni Battista Franco ( * before 1510 in Venice, † 1561 in Venice), also known by the name Battista Franco Veneziano and Semolei, was an Italian painter of the Mannerist.

He came in his twenties from Venice to Rome and painted an allegory of the battle of Montemurlo (now in the Palazzo Pitti ( 1537 ) and a fresco of the arrest of John the Baptist for the church of San Giovanni Decollato (1541 ). From 1545 to 1551 he painted. Urbino Maybe he counted there, together with Girolamo Genga, to the mentors of Federico Barocci his mannerist style of painting was influenced by Michelangelo; ., but his drawings and engravings are characterized by greater momentum and originality.

He returned to Venice, where he worked on the ceiling fresco of the Biblioteca Marciana. He painted a series of pictures, including a Baptism of Christ for the walls and the vault of the Grimani Chapel in the church of San Francesco della Vigna in Venice. For the Doge's Palace, he painted the Raising of Lazarus.

Credentials

  • Sydney J. Freedberg: Pelican History of Art ( ed. ): Painting in Italy, 1500-1600 1993, pp. 486-7 Penguin Books Ltd.
  • Biography at Artnet (English )
  • Entry at Newadvent.org (English )
  • Italian Painter
  • Artist (Venice)
  • Born in 1510
  • Died in 1561
  • Man
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