Francesco Bissolo (1470-72 - 20 April 1554) was a
Venetian painter of the
Renaissance
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. He is also known as Pier Francesco Bissolo.
''Santa Giustina'' in ">Treviso Cathedral
He is described as a pupil of
Giovanni Bellini
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. He painted a ''Christ exchanging crown of thorns for crown of gold with St. Catherine'' for the church of
il Redentore
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I ...
, now at the
Gallerie dell'Accademia
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in
Venice
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, and a ''Santa Giustina'' in
Treviso
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cathedral. He painted a ''Holy Family with donor in landscape'' found at the
Dayton Art Institute
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in
Ohio
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,
United States
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.
Dayton Art Institute painting
.
He died in the ''contrada'' of S. Marciliano on 20 April 1554 after six months of illness.[Maria Maddalena Palmegiano (1968)]
BISSOLO, Francesco
''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani'', Volume 10 (in Italian). Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed July 2013.
References
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People from Treviso
15th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
16th-century Italian painters
Painters from Venice
Renaissance painters
1554 deaths
Year of birth unknown
1470 births
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