Francesco di Simone da Santacroce
Francesco di Simone da Santacroce or Santa Croce (born in Santa Croce, frazione of San Pellegrino Terme, near Bergamo c. 1470–1475 and died Venice, 1508) was an Italian painter, active mainly in a Renaissance style. He was influenced by Giovanni Bellini. • Illustration — Annunciation (1504), Pinacoteca Carrara, Bergamo.
Also recorded as Francesco I di Simone da Santacroce · Francesco di Simone, I Santacroce · Francesco, I Santacroce
Francesco di Simone da Santacroce
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- Born
- 1440 · San Pellegrino Terme.
- Died
- 1508 · Venice.
- Nationality
- Republic of Venice
- Occupation
- painter · artist
- Fields
- religious art
- Teachers
- Giovanni Bellini
- Languages
- Italian
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Francesco di Simone da Santacroce or Santa Croce (born in Santa Croce, frazione of San Pellegrino Terme, near Bergamo c. 1470–1475 and died Venice, 1508) was an Italian painter, active mainly in a Renaissance style. He was influenced by Giovanni Bellini. • Illustration — Annunciation (1504), Pinacoteca Carrara, Bergamo.
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Francesco di Simone da Santacroce (1440–1508) was an artist and painter and a national of the Republic of Venice. Born in San Pellegrino Terme, the artist died in Venice. Francesco di Simone da Santacroce worked in Venice.
Genres include religious art. Languages used include Italian. Works by the artist are held at Accademia Carrara, Gemäldegalerie Berlin and Nivaagaard Museum.
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Training under Giovanni Bellini is recorded. Francesco Rizzo da Santacroce and Palma Vecchio are recorded as having studied under Francesco di Simone da Santacroce. The recorded working language is Italian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are religious art. Places of work recorded in the authority are Venice. Work by Francesco di Simone da Santacroce is recorded in the collections of Nivaagaard Museum, Accademia Carrara and Gemäldegalerie Berlin.
He is best known for founding a studio that trained Francesco Rizzo, who inherited the studio after his master's demise, and later Palma il Vecchio and Andrea Previtali. His main pupil Francesco Rizzo is also sometimes known as Francesco da Santacroce. To confuse names further, a Francesco di Simone, was putatively active in the early 15th century in Naples, a pupil of Simone Napoletano and colleague of Colantonio del Fiore. Finally Simone Ferrucci is a Quattrocento sculptor also known as Francesco di Simone Ferrucci.
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1440
Francesco di Simone da Santacroce born at San Pellegrino Terme.
1508
Francesco di Simone da Santacroce died on 28 October 1508.
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- 1.Encyclopedia Treccani, Entry on Francesco di Simone da Santacroce, by Sonia Bozzi, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 50 (1998).
- 2.History of Painting in Italy: Giotto & the Giottesques by Joseph Archer Crowe, Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, Robert Langton Douglas, Sandford Arthur Strong, page 104.
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He trained under Giovanni Bellini. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
Francesco di Simone da Santacroce is recorded as a citizen of Republic of Venice. Recorded with the occupation painter. Classed in the genre religious art.
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