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Battista Franco Giovanni
(1510 - 1561)
Le Jour du tombeau de Julien de Médicis
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Thierry Le Mage
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
crossed-legged (pose)
nude (male)
Allegory (all)
laying down
tomb
day
copy (reproduction)
sculpture (representation of)
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About the artwork
Title:
Le Jour du tombeau de Julien de Médicis
Periods:
renaissance
16th century
Techniques:
pen (drawing)
Dimensions:
265 x 340
Inventory number:
INV751-recto
Detail:
Vers 1536
Location:
musée du Louvre
About the author(s)
Author:
Battista Franco Giovanni
Also known as:
il Semolei
Giovanni Battista Franco
Bap. Franco
Semolei
Baptista Veneziano Franco
Baptiste Franc
Battista Di Franchi Franco
Baptista Veneziano
Bapt. Franco
Il Semolei Franco
Il Semolei
Battta Franco
Battista di Franchi
il Semolei Franco
Born:
1510
Dead:
1561
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Battista Franco Veneziano
also known by his correct name of
Giovanni Battista Franco
(before 1510 – 1561) was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker in etching active in Rome, Urbino, and Venice in the mid 16th century. He is also known as
il Semolei
or just
Battista Franco
. Native to Venice, he came to Rome in his twenties. He 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 Oratory of San Giovanni…
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