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Marcantonio Franceschini

Marcantonio Franceschini (1648 - 1729) was active/lived in Italy.  Marcantonio Franceschini is known for Figure, religious genre painting, church altarpieces, ceiling decoration, fresco.

The Bolognese Marcantonio Franceschini was a young age student of Giovanni Maria Galli da Bibiena (1625-1665) and worked from the age of 20 in the workshop Carlo Cignanis (1628-1719) in the Emilia-Romagna on numerous commissions, notably frescoes.  Early 30s he set up his own workshop and acquired in a short time a reputation beyond the country's borders.  For Franceschini significant contracts included the decoration of the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa in 1685, as well as numerous works from 1692 until his death commissioned by Fürst Johann Adam Andreas I von Liechtenstein, for whom he had been working as an art agent, and in 1711 the appointment by Pope Clement XI. the design of the Choir Chapel of St. Peter in Rome.  A lot of the incoming of foreign nobles ordered his work  but he refused because he did not want to leave his hometown for a long time.

Nevertheless Franceschini left an extensive oeuvre, most of which compiled his own book (Libro dei Conti. Bolog   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2105 characters.]  Artist bio

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