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Facts

Also Known As Francesco di Marco di Giacomo Raibolini
Born 1450 • Bologna • Italy
Died January 5, 1517 or January 5, 1518 • Bologna • Italy
Movement / Style Renaissance art • Renaissance

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“Assumption” (lost in war), oil on wood by Francia, c. 1504; formerly in the Staatliche Museen, Berlin
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Titian: Venus of Urbino
Titian
Italian painter
Tintoretto: Last Supper
Tintoretto
Italian painter
Bellini, Giovanni: Saint Jerome Reading
Giovanni Bellini
Italian painter
The Adoration of the Shepherds by Giorgione
Giorgione
Italian painter
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Antonio Vivarini
Italian painter
The Annunciation to the Shepherds, oil on canvas by Jacopo Bassano, probably 1555/1560; in the Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 106.1 × 82.6 cm.
Jacopo Bassano
Italian painter
Jacopo Bellini: The Nativity
Jacopo Bellini
Italian painter
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Vittore Carpaccio
Italian painter
The Last Supper
Andrea del Castagno
Italian painter
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Paris Bordone
Italian painter
“The Condemned in Hell,” fresco by Luca Signorelli, 1500–02; in the chapel of S. Brizio, Orvieto, Italy
Luca Signorelli
Italian painter
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Franciabigio
Italian painter
Francesco Di Giorgio
Francesco di Giorgio
Italian artist
Bernardino Luini: The Magdalen
Bernardino Luini
Italian painter
Romanino, Il: The Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Anthony Abbot and a Donor
Il Romanino
Italian painter
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Scipione Pulzone
Italian painter
Burial of the Count de Orgaz
El Greco
Greek artist
Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
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Hugo van der Goes
Flemish artist
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Lucas van Leyden
Dutch artist

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