Giacomo Raibolini
Giacomo Raibolini (1484 – 3 January 1557), also called Giacomo Francia or Jacopo Francia, was an Italian painter and engraver of the Renaissance period.
Francia was born in
Giacomo's earliest known work is the Virgin in Glory with Saints Peter, Mary Magdalene, Francis, Martha and Six Nuns (after 1515; Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna, ). In this painting, as in the Saints Jerome, Margaret and Francis (1518; Madrid, Prado) and the Nativity (1519; San Giovanni Evangelista, Parma), both dated and signed by both brothers, there appear, in addition to the influence of their father, echoes of the monumental style of Raphael.
Other paintings of Raibolini include:
- Works in Church of San Giovanni Evangelista, Parma.
- Baptism of Valerian and the Martyrdom of St Cecilia, frescoes, Oratorio di Santa Cecilia, Bologna
- Madonna seated with Saints Francis, Bernard, Sebastian, and Maurice (1526) in Bologna
- St Michael Archangel for the church of San Domenico, Bologna.
- Nativity (c. 1552), Santa Cristina, Bologna
References
- Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 341.
- ^ "Brief Bio Giacomo Francia". Answers.com. Retrieved 2009-01-22.
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