Franco Bolognese
Franco Bolognese (14th century) was an Italian painter, active as a miniature painter (illuminator).
He is said to have trained under
Dante gives him a higher rank in the Purgatorio (xi. 83). Franco Bolognese was the founder of a school of painters at Bologna, and instructed, amongst others, Vitale da Bologna, Lorenzo, Simone Jacopo, and Cristoforo da Bologna
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In literature
Franco B. is praised to be better than his teacher, Oderisi, in Divine Comedy by Oderisi himself.[1]
Sources
- Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I: A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 148.
References
- ^ Alighieri, Dante. Divine Comedy. Canto XI of Purgatory.
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