- Francesco Brizio
Francesco Brizio (1574 - 1623) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Bolognese School, active in the early-
Baroque .He was also known as "Nosadella" and was born in
Bologna . He was initially a pupil ofBartolommeo Passarotti , but then became a pupil under Agostino andLudovico Carracci . He helped paint, along withLucio Massari andLeonello Spada , stories of Torquato Tasso's epic in the loggias of the Bentivogli palace. He also frescoed a ceiling for the signori Conti Boschetti inModena and in the Oratorio della SS Trinità in Pieve diCento . InBologna , he painted a "Coronation of the Madonna del Borgo" for the church of San Petronio. He also frescoed in the cloister of San Michele in Bosco. His son Filippo became a pupil ofGuido Reni . Another pupil wasDomenico Ambrogi .In engraving he was instructed by
Agostino Carracci , and he is said to have forwarded some of the plates of that master. He died atBologna . Among his works as an engraver:*#"A large Landscape" from his own design.
*#"St. Roch" after Parmigianino.
*#"The flight to Egypt" afterLudovico Carracci .
*#"The Holy Family" after Correggio.
*#"Portrait of Cinthio Aldobrandini; afterLudovico Carracci .
*#A Frontispiece; inscribed Explicatione del sacro lenzuolo; (1599) after the same.
*#"Another Frontispiece; inscribed Tempio alCardinale Cinthio Aldobrandini (1579) after the same,
*#"Another Frontispiece, with the Arms of Duke of Modena, and in the middle some Children; the Virgin Mary in the Clouds; after the same.
*#"The Virgin Mary crowned, with the Infant Jesus", after same. (1594)
*#"St. Francis kneeling, holding the Infant Jesus, and the two Angels".
*#"The great St. Jerome"; left imperfect byAgostino Carracci .
*#"Christ and the Samaritan" (1610) and "A Blind Man led by a Dog" afterAnnibale Carracci .References
*cite book | author= Marchese Antonio Bolognini Amorini| year=1843| title= Vite de Pittori ed Artifici Bolognesi| chapter= | editor= | others= | pages= pages 91-96| publisher= Tipografia Governativa alla Volpe, Bologna | id= | url= http://books.google.com/books?id=-GABAAAAQAAJ&dq=pittori&as_brr=1 | authorlink=
*cite book| first=Michael| last=Bryan| year=1886| title="Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical" (Volume I: A-K)| editor = Robert Edmund Graves| pages= page 185| publisher=George Bell and Sons|location=York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007 |id= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=4GYCAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=DICTIONARY+AACHEN+AALST&as_brr=1| authorlink=
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