upright=1, ''Madonna on the throne with the Child between St. Andrew and St. Bartholomew'' in Treviso Francesco da Milano (born ''Francesco Pagani'') was an Italian painter from

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. He was active between 1502 and 1548 and twenty of his works in oil-on-canvas and fresco survive in the hill-country of

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and

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, including a fresco cycle at

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. As a Lombard, some aspects of his style were influenced by

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and Vincenzo Civerchio, though he was also influenced by

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, who like him lived and worked in the "contrada de Piai" in Serravalle. Titian was preferred to Francesco by Serravalle's town council – Francesco had been the initial choice to paint the Serravalle Altarpiece.

References

*Baldissin, Mariuccia e Soligon, Antonio, ''Chiese a San Fior. Alla scoperta del patrimonio artistico'', San Fior 2002, pp. 102–120. *Crespi, Leonardi, Zanato, ''Magia del colore. Chiese affrescate della Marca Trevigiana'', Vianello libri, 2008. *Giorgio Tagliaferro, ''Tiziano Vecellio. Madonna col Bambino in gloria e santi Andrea e Pietro'', in ''Lungo le vie di Tiziano. I luoghi e le opere di Tiziano, Francesco, Orazio e Marco Vecellio tra Vittorio Veneto e il Cadore'', a. c. di M. Mazza, Skira, 2007, pp. 54–65. *

Ernst Gombrich Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich (; ; 30 March 1909 – 3 November 2001) was an Austrian-born art historian who, after settling in England in 1936, became a naturalised British citizen in 1947 and spent most of his working life in the United Ki ...

– ''Dizionario della Pittura e dei Pittori'' – Einaudi Editore (1997) 16th-century Italian painters {{Italy-painter-stub