San Salvador Interno - Vista interna della portella destra di Francesco Vecellio

Francesco Vecellio (about 1475 – 1560) was a Venetian painter of the

Italian Renaissance The Italian Renaissance ( it, Rinascimento ) was a period in Italian history covering the 15th and 16th centuries. The period is known for the initial development of the broader Renaissance culture that spread across Europe and marked the tra ...

. He was the elder brother and close collaborator of the painter Tiziano Vecellio ("Titian"). Vecellio was born in

Pieve di Cadore Pieve di Cadore is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the province of Belluno in the Italian region of Veneto, about north of Venice and about northeast of Belluno. "Pieve" means "Parish church". It is the birthplace of the Italian painter Tit ...

, in the

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, in either 1475 or 1483; he was the elder brother and close collaborator of the painter Tiziano Vecellio ("Titian"). He was a soldier, and fought in battles at

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and at

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. He then worked as a painter; in 1530 he painted the shutters of the organ of the church of San Salvador in

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. From about 1534 he worked as a wood-engraver. He painted an ''Annunciation'' for San Nicola di Bari, now in the

Gallerie dell'Accademia The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in Venice, northern Italy. It is housed in the Scuola della Carità on the south bank of the Grand Canal, within the sestiere of Dorsoduro. It was originally the gallery of ...

, along with '' Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome and Saint Dorothy'' (Glasgow). He died in Pieve di Cadore in 1559 or 1560.

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