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Giovanni Battista Franco, artist
Italian, 1498 - 1561
Christ Among the Doctors, circa 1530 - 1540
Engraving
36.5 x 46.6 cm (image)
Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Sopher Collection 1986.1.357

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Artist Biography: Called Il Semolei. Painter and printmaker, born ca. 1498 Udine or Venice. Family name was probably Semolei.Worked in Rome and Florence in the 1530's, settled in Rome. His father and son, Giacomo, were also printmakers. Died in Venice 1561. Often signed his prints BFVF (Battista Franco Venetis Fecit).~~Reference: Bartsch, Adam. Le Peintre-Graveur. vol. 16. W¸rzburg: 1920.~Zerner, H. Italian Artists of the Sixteenth Century. The Illustrated Bartsch vol 32. New York: 1979.~Reed, Sue Walsh and Richard Wallace. Italian Etchers of the Renaissance and Baroque. Boston: 1989, Museum of Fine Arts.~

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