Italian, 1859-1942 Related Paintings of Rubens Santoro :. | Saint Flavia | virgin of the rosary | Jeune taureau dans un pre (mk40) | an 18th century painting of young man playing the spinet by jonathan richardson | St paul at his Writing-Desk (mk33) | Related Artists: FRANCIA, Francesco Italian High Renaissance Painter, 1450-1517
He turned to painting c. 1485, and his first works already testify to the considerable technical accomplishment and gentle religious sensibility that remained constants of his art. His major surviving paintings are altarpieces, mostly images of the Virgin and saints, initially done for Bologna and later for nearby centres, notably Parma, Modena, Ferrara and Lucca. He also painted many small-scale devotional works and a few portraits. The apochryphal anecdote reported by Vasari that Francia died on seeing Raphael's altarpiece of St Cecilia Zubov
