Francesco Terzi

Francesco Terzi (c. 1525 – 20 August 1591) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Bergamo. He was a pupil of Giovanni Battista Moroni. He painted two pictures a Nativity, and an Assumption of the Virgin for San Francesco, in Bergamo. He was invited and appointed painter to the court of the Emperor Maximilian II in Vienna. Terzi passed the greater part of his life in Germany, but died in Rome. A series of portraits by him of the Austrian archducal family was afterwards engraved. Francesco Lana de Terzi was a visionary Jesuit writer and engineer.

References

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II: L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. pp. page 561.