Francesco Bissolo
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Francesco Bissolo, Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine, 1500-25, oil on canvas, 72 × 96 cm; National Museum, Warsaw | |
| Born | 1470–72 |
| Died | 20 April 1554 |
| Nationality | Venetian |
Francesco Bissolo (1470-72 - 20 April 1554) was a Venetian 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 Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, and a Santa Giustina in Treviso cathedral. He painted a Holy Family with donor in landscape found at the Dayton Art Institute in Ohio, United States.[1]
He died in the contrada of S. Marciliano on 20 April 1554 after six months of illness.[2]
References
- Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves, ed. 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. pp. page 131.
- ↑ Dayton Art Institute painting.
- ↑ Maria Maddalena Palmegiano (1968). BISSOLO, Francesco. Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 10 (in Italian). Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed July 2013.
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