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Mantegna and Francia

Chapter 20: THE PRINCIPAL WORKS OF FRANCIA.
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The author traces the lives, careers, and artistic development of two prominent Renaissance artists, presenting chronological chapters on early training, major commissions, technical methods, key frescoes and engravings, and later influence. Detailed visual analyses accompany descriptions of signature projects, studio practices, and relationships with contemporary patrons and peers, while lists of principal works, plates, a chronology, and bibliography provide reference. The volume combines on-site observations with secondary scholarship to map stylistic evolution and contrasts between the two masters, offering readers both narrative biography and focused art-historical commentary.

THE PRINCIPAL WORKS OF FRANCIA.

Berlin.

Museum.

Madonna and Child, with SS. Geminiano, Bernard, Dorothea, Catharine, Jerome, and Louis of France. Francia Aurifaber Bonon̅, 1502 (painted for Santa Cecilia, Modena).

Holy Family (early work) Bartholemei sum(ptu) Bianchini Maxima matrom hic vivit manibus Francia picta tuis.

Bologna.

Pinacoteca.

78. Madonna and Child, with SS. John the Baptist, Monica, Augustin, Francis, Proculus and Sebastian and an Angel (with portrait of Bartolommeo Felicini, for whom it was painted, Opus Franciæ Aurificis, MCCCCLXXXX (IV?).)

80. Madonna and Child, with SS. John the Baptist, Augustin, Jerome, and Stephen, and an angel (painted for the Manzuoli).

81. The Infant Christ adored by the Virgin, SS. Joseph, Augustin, and Francis, the donor and two angels. (Painted for Antonio Galeazzo Bentivoglio in 1499.)

82. Birth; Infancy; Death of Christ. (A predella.)

83. Pietà.

[These five were formerly in Santa Maria della Misericordia, Bologna.]

371. Annunciation, with SS. George, Bernardino of Siena, Francis of Assisi, and John the Evangelist. Francia Aurifex pinxit, MCCCCC.

372. Madonna and Child, with SS. John the Baptist, Paul, and Francis of Assisi.

373. Crucifixion, with the Madonna, the Magdalen, St. Jerome, and St. John the Evangelist. Opus Franciæ Aurif.

[These three were formerly in the SS. Annunziata, Bologna.]

79. Annunciation, with SS. John the Baptist and Jerome.

[Formerly in the Oratorio of San Girolamo di Miramonte Bologna.]

San Giacomo Maggiore.

Madonna, with Saints and Angels. Johanni Bentivoglio II. Francia Aurifex pinxit. (in 1499). [In the Bentivoglio Chapel.]

Marriage; and Burial of St. Cecilia, fresco 1509. [In the Oratory of Santa Cecilia.]

San Martino Maggiore.

Madonna and Child, with SS. Roch, Sebastian, Bernardino, and Anthony of Padua. Francia Aurifex p.

SS. Vitale ed Agricola.

Angels playing musical instruments (round an older picture of the Madonna).

Casa Ercolani.

God the Father, 1514.

Cesena.

Pinacoteca.

Presentation. Francia Aurifex.

Dresden.

Gallery.

Adoration of the Kings (a predella).

Madonna and Child, with the bird, and St. John the Baptist.

Baptism of Christ. Francia Aurifex Bon. F. M. V. VIIII. (1509).

Ferrara.

Cathedral.

Coronation of the Virgin, with SS. George, Stephen, Bartholomew, John the Baptist, Peter, Augustin and Paul, Catherine, and another female Saint. (The altar-piece “of all the Saints.”)

Florence.

Uffizi.

Portrait of Evangelista Scappi. So. Vangelista Scarpi.

Forli.

Pinacoteca.

Adoration of the Child (from the Palazzo Zambeccari, Bologna).

Frankfort.

Städel.

Portrait of a young man.

Hampton Court.

Baptism of Christ. Francia Aurifex Bon. (replica of the Dresden Gallery picture).

London.

National Gallery.

The Virgin with the Infant Christ and St. Anne, enthroned, surrounded by SS. John the Baptist, Sebastian, Paul, Lawrence and Romualdo (with the annexed signature).

The Virgin and two angels weeping over the dead body of Christ (lunette of the above).

[These two pictures, formerly an altar-piece, were originally in the Buonvisi Chapel in San Frediano, at Lucca.]

The Virgin and Child with two Saints.

Dudley House.

Virgin and Child with St. Joseph. Jacobus Cambarus Bonon. per Franciam aurifabrum hoc opus fieri curavit, 1495.

Virgin and Child.

Lucca.

San Frediano.

The Virgin in glory blessed by Christ, with SS. Anselm, Augustin, Anthony, and David and Solomon.

Scenes from the History of the Augustine order (predella).

Galleria Mansi da San Pellegrino.

Madonna and Child.

Madrid.

Duke of Fernan Nunez.

St. Sebastian.

Milan.

Brera.

Annunciation.

Casa Pertusati.

Madonna and Saints. 1511.

Munich.

Pinakothek.

Madonna of the Rose-garden. Francia Aurifex Bono. (A copy is in the Berlin Museum, and another in the Pinacoteca, Bologna.)

Madonna and Child (who holds a bird), with two angels.

Paris.

Louvre.

The Nativity.

Christ on the Cross, with Job, the Virgin, and St. John. Francia Aurifaber (formerly in San Giobbe, Bologna).

Parma.

Accademia.

Deposition. Francia Aurifex Bonon. F.

Madonna and Child, St. John the Baptist, and SS. Joseph, Benedict, Scolastica, and Placida. Francia Aurifex Bononiensis, F. MDXV.

Madonna with the little St. John.

Rome.

Palazzo Borghese.

St. Stephen. Vincentii Desiderii votum Fra̅ciæ expressum manu (early work).

Madonna and Child.

St. Petersburg.

Hermitage.

Madonna and Child (in the background the “Resurrection” and “Transfiguration”). F. Francia.

Madonna and Child, with St. Jerome, St. Lawrence, and two angels. D.S. Ludovicus de Calcina. Decretoru̅ doctor canonicus. S.P Bon redificator auctorq. Domus et restaurator huius eclesiæ fecit fieri. P. Me Franciam Aurifice̅ Bonon. ano. MCCCCC.

Turin.

Museum.

Pietà, with the Virgin, the Magdalen, the Evangelist, and a Saint. F. Francia Aurifex Bononiensis F. MDXV.

Vienna.

Belvedere.

Madonna and Child, with SS. John the Baptist, Francis, and Catherine (repainted).

Academy.

Madonna and Child, with Saints (repainted, and doubtful).

Liechtenstein Gallery.

Portrait of a Bolognese nobleman (formerly ascribed to Raphael).