Innocenzo (di Pietro) Francucci (c. 1490 – c. 1550), generally known as Innocenzo da Imola, was an Italian

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

and

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Biography

The son of a goldsmith named Pietro, he was born in

Imola Imola (; or ) is a city and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Bologna, located on the river Santerno, in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. The city is traditionally considered the western entrance to the historical region Romagna ...

sometime around 1490. After presumably studying with his father in Imola, by 1506 he had moved to nearby

Bologna Bologna ( , , ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy. It is the List of cities in Italy, seventh most populous city in Italy, with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nationalities. Its M ...

to study painting. According to

Carlo Cesare Malvasia Carlo Cesare Malvasia (18 December 16169 March 1693) was an Italian scholar and art historian from Bologna, best known for his biographies of Baroque artists titled ''Felsina pittrice'', published in 1678. Together with his contemporary Giovanni P ...

he entered the studio of

Francesco Francia __NOTOC__ Francesco Francia, whose real name was Francesco Raibolini (1447 – 5 January 1517) was an Italian painter, goldsmith, and medallist from Bologna, who was also director of the city mint.Levinson:492 He may have trained with Marco Zop ...

in 1508 (although the reliability of this claim has been questioned). He later went to Florence where in 1510 he worked under the direction of

Mariotto Albertinelli Mariotto di Bindo di Biagio Albertinelli (13 October 1474 – 5 November 1515) was an Italian Renaissance painter active in Florence. He was a close friend and collaborator of Fra Bartolomeo.Ludovico Borgo and Margot Borgo.Albertinelli, Mariott ...

. His earliest known works include ''The Virgin and Child with Saints Sebastian, Roch, Cosmas and Damian'' was signed and dated in 1515. ''The Virgin and Child with Saints John, Apollinaris and Catherine and a Bishop'', signed and dated in 1516. This second painting is in Cásola Valsenio, near Bologna. During his life he produced a series of religious frescoes and altarpieces, painted in a

Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael ( , ), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. List of paintings by Raphael, His work is admired for its cl ...

esque manner.Wyss, Edith (1996)
''The myth of Apollo and Marsyas in the art of the Italian Renaissance: an inquiry into the meaning of images''
Newark: University of Delaware Press; London; Cranbury: Associated University Presses, p. 86. . His only secular paintings are five mythological frescoes in the Palazzina della Viola in Bologna. He trained artists such as

Francesco Primaticcio Francesco Primaticcio (; April 30, 1504 – 1570) was an Italian Mannerism, Mannerist Painting, painter, architect and sculpture, sculptor who spent most of his career in France. Biography Born in Bologna, he trained under Giulio Romano ( ...

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, and Pietro Lamo. The Church of

Santa Maria Dei Servi Santa Maria dei Servi may refer to the following churches in Italy: * Santa Maria dei Servi, Bologna Santa Maria dei Servi is a Roman Catholic basilica in Bologna, Italy. It was founded in 1346, as the church of the Servites, Servite Community o ...

in Bologna has interior paintings by Francucci. Francucci died in Bologna around 1550.

Known works

*''The Virgin and Child with Saints Sebastian, Roch, Cosmas and Damian'' (1515) -

Bagnara di Romagna Bagnara di Romagna () is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Ravenna in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about southeast of Bologna and about west of Ravenna. Bagnara di Romagna borders the following municipalities: Cotig ...

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*''The Holy Family'' (c. 1515) -

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*''The Virgin and Child with Saints John, Apollinaris and Catherine and a Bishop'' (1516)

Casola Valsenio Casola Valsenio () is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Ravenna in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about southeast of Bologna and about southwest of Ravenna. History The village was founded in 1216 after the Casola castle ...

*''Study of an Angel and of Drapery'' (c. 1520) -

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''Innocenzo da Imola, 700, Study of an Angel and of Drapery (drawing)''

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. Retrieved February 7, 2012. *''The Virgin and Child with Saints John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, Joachim and Anne'' (1526), Faenza Cathedral *''The Virgin of the Rosary'' (1531), church of San Domenico fuori le mura,

Catania Catania (, , , Sicilian and ) is the second-largest municipality on Sicily, after Palermo, both by area and by population. Despite being the second city of the island, Catania is the center of the most densely populated Sicilian conurbation, wh ...

*''The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine of Siena'', Filangieri Museum, Naples *''Madonna and Child in Glory and the Saints Archangel Michael,
and Peter Benedict'',

Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna The National Art Gallery of Bologna (''Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna'') is a museum in Bologna, Italy. It is located in the former Saint Ignatius Jesuit novitiate of the city's University district, and inside the same building that houses the ...

*''St. John the Evangelist'',

La Salle University La Salle University () is a private university, private, Catholic university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The university was founded in 1863 by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools and named for St. Jean-Bapt ...

References

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