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- Also called:
- Il Volterrano
- Born:
- 1611, Volterra, republic of Florence [Italy]
- Died:
- 1690, Florence (aged 79)
- Movement / Style:
- Baroque art and architecture
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Baldassare Franceschini
Italian painter
Also known as: Il Volterrano
Baldassare Franceschini (born 1611, Volterra, republic of Florence [Italy]—died 1690, Florence) was an Italian painter of the Baroque era.
At a very early age Franceschini started as an assistant to his father, a sculptor. From 1652 to 1660 he worked on paintings in the cupola of the Niccolini Chapel in Santa Croce, Florence. His work during these years was his most notable. Among his best oil paintings of large scale is the St. John the Evangelist for the Church of Santa Chiara at Volterra. One of his last works was the fresco of the cupola of the Annunziata, Florence, which occupied him for two years about 1683.
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