Francesco di Cristofano known as Franciabigio (Florence, 1482 - 1525) or Marcantonio Franciabigio or Francia Bigio is a painter of the school florentine during the Renaissance.

Biography

It is born in Florence and works initially with Albertinelli until about 1506. In 1505, it becomes acquainted with Andrea del Sarto. The following year, it installs with this one a common workshop on the Piazza del Grano. Franciabigio is attentive with anatomical exactitude and the prospect in its works. It is especially skilful in the frescos including one, after its restoration, will be allotted to him in the central arc of the Porta Romana.

Francesco d' Ubertino was the pupil of the Perugino then its assistant.

Works

• San Cristoforo , chiesa di San Cristofano in Novoli, popular quarters in the west of Florence
• It Cenacolo della Calza (1514) with the convent San Giovanni Battista della Calza , in Oltrarno.
• Madonna idiot Bambino, san Giuseppe E san Giovannino (1508 -1510)
• Cenacolo (1514) representing the Ultima Cena E Santi, Annunciazione E Adorazione del Bambino , fresco carried out with Giovanni Antonio Sogliani with the church Santa Maria dei Candeli
• Annunciazione , Abbazia di San Gaudenzio
• fresco of the furnace bridge, church San Leonardo, Cerreto Guidi
• Madonna collar Bambino (1514), museum of the Hermitage, Saint-Petersbourg
• Man , Virgin Getty Center
• with the Child with saint Jean young Baptist and Portrait of man (1517) with the Lichtenstein museum, Vienna
• Portrait of man to the museum of Louvre
• Portrait of the king de Rhodes , National Gallery, London
• …

Internal bonds

• Giorgio Vasari quotes it and describes its biography in Quickly the , names it Francia Bigio and known as which it exceeded all its contemporaries in the art of the fresco.

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