Francesco Vecellio (about 1475 – 1560) was a Venetian painter of the Italian Renaissance. He was the elder brother and close collaborator of the painter Tiziano Vecellio ("Titian").
Vecellio was born in Pieve di Cadore, in the Republic of Venice, in either 1475 or 1483;[1] he was the elder brother and close collaborator of the painter Tiziano Vecellio ("Titian").[2] He was a soldier, and fought in battles at Vienna and at Verona.[1] He then worked as a painter; in 1530 he painted the shutters of the organ of the church of San Salvador in Venice.[2] From about 1534 he worked as a wood-engraver.[1] He painted an Annunciation for San Nicola di Bari, now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, along with Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome and Saint Dorothy (Glasgow).[citation needed]
He died in Pieve di Cadore in 1559 or 1560.[1]
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References
- ^ a b c d Vecellio, Francesco or Veccellio. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00189048. (subscription required).
- ^ a b Vecèllio, Francesco (in Italian). Enciclopedie online. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed October 2022.
Further reading
- Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 639.
- Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Pelican History of Art (ed.). Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. Penguin Books. pp. 345–346.
- Ettore Merkel, Francesco Vecellio's Organ Door Schutters in San Salvador, in Save Venice, 1995, pp. 22-27
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