Francesco Raibolini

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).
Baptism of Christ by Francesco Raibolini (1509), at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden
Baptism of Christ by Francesco Raibolini (1509), at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden

Francesco Raibolini (c. 1450 - January 5, 1517), called Francia, was a Bolognese painter, goldsmith, and medalist.

He was first mentioned as a painter in 1486 and 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. Raphael's Santa Cecilia is supposed to have produced such a feeling of inferiority in Francia that it caused him to die of depression (Murray, p. 146).

[edit] References

  • Peter and Linda Murray, Dictionary of Art and Artists. Fifth Edition (London: Penguin, 1983), p. 145-6.

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../f/r/a/Francesco_Raibolini_1250.html"