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FRANCESCI1I principle of selection in form, he would have ranked with tho greatest Italian paint- ers. Between 1447 and 1452 Picro worked at Loreto, and at Rimini for Sigismond Pan- dolfo Malatesta, for whom lie painted, in the Chapel of the Relics, S. Francesco kneeling before his patron saint, with two eouchant greyhounds at his heels. The fresco, dated 1451, is an admirable piece of quattrocento work. "We next find Piero at Arezzo paint- ing the Legend of the Cross around the choir of S. Francesco, between 1453 and 1454, and then at Borgo S.m Sepolcro, em- ployed upon an altarpiece on panel for the Confraternity of tho Misoricordia, which still exists in the Church of tho Hospital, formerly occupied by the Brothers. Other works by this painter in his native town are a fresco of the Resurrection, in the Monte Pio, and another of St. Louis (1460), in the Municipal Palace. His Baptism of Christ, National Gallery, London, is pure in outline, and, like all his works, most carefully elab- orated in every detail. In same gallery arc a Nativity, portrait of Isotta da Rimini, and portrait of a Ladj-. In 14(10 Piero went to Urbino, where he painted a Flagellation, now in the Cathedral, and an Apotheosis, with portraits of the Duke and his wife, Battista Sfor/.a. The well-known profile portraits of this same ducal pair, in the Uffizi Gallery, are masterpieces of their kind, painted about 1472. Piero was the author of a highly esteemed Treatise on Perspective, the MS. of which belongs to the Saibanti Library, Verona. Vasari, ed. Mil., ii. 487 ; C. & C., Italy, ii. 520 ; Burckhardt, 557 ; Cibo, Scuola Umbra, 26, 50 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole ombrieuue ; Lilbke, Gesch. ital. MaL, i. 392. FRANCESCHI, PAOLO (Paul Fran choys, Francesco Paolo cle' Freschi, Paolo Fiam- mingo), born at Antwerp in 1540, died in Venice in 1596. Flemish-Venetian school ; landscape, animal, history, and portrait painter, pupil and assistant of Tintoretto in Venice, whither lie went when very young, and where he acquired reputation as one of the best landscape painters of the time. By order of the Venetian Senate he painted the large picture in the Ducal Palace, and for the Emperor Rudolph II. two Alle- gories. Works : Pope Alexander III. bless- ing the Doge Ziani, Ducal Palace, Venice ; Descent from the Cross, St. John preaching, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, S. Maria dei Frari, ib. ; Landscape with Prodigal Son, Academy, ib. ; Pieta, Old Pinakothek, Mu- nich. Fc'tis, Les Artistes beiges a IV'tran- ger, i. 377. FRANCESCHINI, MARCANTONIO, Ca- valiere, born at Bolog- na in 1648, died there in 1729. Bolognese school; history paint- er, pupil of Gio. Maria Galli, and of Cignani, whose assistant he be- came. Called to Ge- noa, in 1702, to deco- rate the Hall of Public Counsel with pictures on the history of the Republic (destroyed by fire in 1777) ; invited to Rome by Pope Clement XI., in 1711, to Genoa in 1714, and to Crema in 1716, to execute fresco paintings. He was the head of a school in Northern Italy similar to that of Cortona in Lower Italy ; adhered at first to manner of Cignani, but later developed a remarkable style of his own. Works : Mag- dalen, Birth of Adonis, Dresden Gallery ; Charity, Magdalen, St. Borromeo during the Plague in Milan, Museum, Vienna ; Venus and Cupid, Czernin Gallery, ib. ; Jacob and Rachel, and others, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib. ; Joseph and Potiphar's Wife, Brunswick Museum ; Diana at the Chase, Copenhagen Gallery ; S. Tommaso da Villanova dispens- ing Alms, Agostiuiani of Rimini ; Pieta, Agostiniani of Imola ; BB. Fondatori, Ser- viti of Bologna. Frescos : Recess in Palazzo Ranuzzi, Cupola and Ceiling in Church of Corpus Domini, Tribune of S. Bartolommeo, Bologna ; Corbels of Cupola, Piacenza Ca- thedral. Brockhaus, vii. 61 ; Lanzi (Ros-