Francesco Francia worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Francesco Francia as Italian painter (1450-1517).
Francesco Francia was born at Bologna in 1447. His recorded nationality is Lordship of Bologna.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as painter, type designer and medalist.
Among his best-known works are Calvary with St. Job at the Foot of the Cross, The Adoration of the Child and Portrait of Evangelista Scappi. An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Lordship of Bologna shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Francesco Francia died in 1517, aged 70. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Calvary with St. Job at the Foot of the Cross
- Notable work: The Adoration of the Child
- Notable work: Portrait of Evangelista Scappi
- Notable work: Burial of Saint Cecilia
