Giovanni Battista Franco
Giovanni Battista Franco (* before 1510 in Venice , † 1561 ibid), also under the name of Battista Franco Veneziano and Semolei , was an Italian painter of Mannerism .
He came to Rome from Venice in his twenties and painted an allegory of the Battle of Montemurlo (now in the Pitti Palace ) (1537) and a fresco of the arrest of John the Baptist for the Church of San Giovanni Decollato (1541). From 1545 to 1551 he painted in Urbino . It is possible that he was one of the mentors of Federico Barocci there, together with Girolamo Genga . His Mannerist style of painting was strongly influenced by Michelangelo ; but his drawings and engravings are characterized by greater verve and originality. In 1550 he created the picture The Resurrection and the Adoration of the Shepherds in the Cappella Gabrielli in Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome. He returned to Venice, where he worked on the ceiling fresco of the Biblioteca Marciana . He painted a number of pictures including a Baptism of Christ ( Barbaro Chapel) for the walls and vault of the Grimani Chapel in the Church of San Francesco della Vigna in Venice. For the Doge's Palace he painted the awakening of Lazarus .
Baptism of Christ San Francesco della Vigna
Grimani Chapel of San Francesco della Vigna
literature
- Sydney J. Freedberg: Painting in Italy, 1500–1600 (= Pelican History of Art ). Penguin, London 1993, ISBN 0-14-056035-1 , pp. 486-487 .
- George Williamson: Giovanni Battista Franco . In: Catholic Encyclopedia , Volume 6, Robert Appleton Company, New York 1909.
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| SURNAME | Franco, Giovanni Battista |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Semolei (pseudonym); Veneziano, Battista Franco (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1510 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Venice |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1561 |
| Place of death | Venice |