Giovanni Battista Franco

male / Italian

engraver (printmaker), architect, painter, draftsperson

Name variations: Giovanni Battista Franco
il Semolei
Battista di Franchi
Battista Franco
Giambattista Franco
Giovanni Franco
il Semolei
Battista di Franchi
Nationality/school
Born: 1498/1515
Grosso 2016: 1510-1515
Deceased: 1561/1580
Grosso 2016: 1561
This person/entity in other databases: 4 hits in RKDimages as creator
299 hits in RKDimages Lite as creator
2 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Qualifications
Active in: 1520 - 1536
According to Vasari 1568 he came in to Rome when he was twenty. He worked here on the triumphal arches under the direction of Antonio da San Gallo on the occasion of the entry of Emperor Charles V on April 5, 1536
1536 - 1541
ca.
1541 - 1541
1544 - 1551
worked here for Duke Giudobaldo II, painting religious paintings and decorations on majolica ware (Dacos/Meijer et al. 1995)
1549 - 1549
c. 1550 he painted the Gabrielli Chapel in Santa Maria sopra Minerva with episodes from the life of Christ and Mary (the landscapes were made by an unknown artist from The Netherlands) (Dacos/Meijer et al. 1995)
1554 - 1561
worked here for the rest of his life, a.o. for the De Grimani family (San Francesco della Vigna, in the Palazzo Ducale and in the Terraferma a.o. in Villa Malcontenta (Dacos/Meijer et al. 1995)
Subjects

Literature in RKDLibrary: Fiamminghi a Roma 1508-1608 : kunstenaars uit de Nederlanden en het Prinsbisdom Luik te Rome tijdens de Renaissance , p. 193-194
Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler : von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart [Thieme Becker] {CATK} , vol. 12 (1916), p. 362-364 (1498-1561)
Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays [Bénézit, 1976] , vol. 4, p. 496-497 (1510-1580)
A checklist of painters c1200-1976 represented in the Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London [first ed.] , p. 103 (1498-1561)
Le vite de' più eccelenti pittori, scultori ed architettori , vol.6, p. 571-597
Other literature: M. Biffis, '''In nomine eius'': precisazioni su Battista Franco a San Francesco della Vigna', Venezia Cinquecento 17 (2007), nr. 33, p. 23-48
D. Howard, A. Varick Lauder, 'New light on Battista Franco in Venice: part I: the Barbara chapel in S. Francesco della Vigna and the Scuola del Nome di Gesû', The Burlington Magazine 148 (2006), p. 747-753
W. Thompson, 'An unknown portrait series by Battista Franco', Print Quarterly 26 (2009), no. 1, p. 3-18
N. Bartelings, 'Veelzijdig en genuanceerd licht op de vroege Venetiaanse prentkunst (Review of the exhibition catalogue G.J. van der Sman, ''De Eeuw van Titiaan. Venetiaanse prenten uit de Renaissance, Zwolle (2003)'', Incontri 18 (2003), p. 167-179
Visual Documentation
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