Francesco Bissolo

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Francesco Bissolo (active 1492-1554) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He is also known as Pier Francesco Bissolo.

He is described as a pupil of Giovanni Bellini. He painted a Christ exchanging crown of thorns for crown of gold with St. Catherine for the church of il Redentore, now at the Accademia, and a Santa Giustina in the Treviso cathedral. He painted a Holy Family with donor in landscape found at the Dayton Art Institute in Ohio, Unites States ^[1].

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• Bryan, Michael (1886). in Robert Edmund Graves: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, page 131.