Battista Franco Veneziano (c. 1510 - 1561) 

• Baptized Giovanni Battista Franco, was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker.
• Active in Rome, Urbino, and Venice in the mid 16th century.
• He is also known as il Semolei or just Battista Franco.

• Native to Venice, he came to Rome in his twenties.

• From 1545–51 he painted in Urbino.

• He returned to Venice, where he helped fresco the ceiling of the Biblioteca Marciana (library).

• He painted a series of panels, including a Baptism of Christ (Barbaro chapel), for the walls and vault of the Grimani chapel in the church San Francesco della Vigna in Venice.

• He painted the Raising of Lazarus in the Ducal palace.

• He is the father of etcher and publisher Giacomo Franco. Museum (Coimbra).

• Next