Francesco da Milano (born ''Francesco Pagani'') was an Italian painter from

Lombardy Lombardy ( it, Lombardia, Lombard language, Lombard: ''Lombardia'' or ''Lumbardia' '') is an administrative regions of Italy, region of Italy that covers ; it is located in the northern-central part of the country and has a population of about 10 ...

. He was active between 1502 and 1548 and twenty of his works in oil-on-canvas and fresco survive in the hill-country of

Treviso Treviso ( , ; vec, Trevixo) is a city and ''comune'' in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 84,669 inhabitants (as of September 2017). Some 3,000 live within the Veneti ...

and Friuli, including a fresco cycle at

Castello Roganzuolo Castello Roganzuolo (''Castél'' in Venetian language) is a frazione of San Fior ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Treviso in the Italian region Veneto, located on Conegliano hills (famous for productions of wine, especially prosecco) ab ...

. As a Lombard, some aspects of his style were influenced by

Bernardo Zenale Bernardo (or Bernardino) Zenale (c. 1460 – 1526) was an Italian painter and architect. Biography Zenale was born in Treviglio, Lombardy, where in 1485 he finished the great polyptych for the church of St. Martin, together with his fellow Ber ...

and

Vincenzo Civerchio Vincenzo Civerchio or Civercio (c. 1470c. 1544) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, born at Crema, Lombardy, Crema, and active also in Brescia, where there are some of his alter-pieces. One of his works is at the National Gallery of Art, W ...

, though he was also influenced by

Titian Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italians, Italian (Republic of Venice, Venetian) painter of the Renaissance, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school (art), ...

, who like him lived and worked in the "contrada de Piai" in Serravalle. Titian was preferred to Francesco by Serravalle's town council - Francesco had been the initial choice to paint the Serravalle Altarpiece.

Bibliography

*Baldissin, Mariuccia e Soligon, Antonio, ''Chiese a San Fior. Alla scoperta del patrimonio artistico'', San Fior 2002, pp. 102–120. *Crespi, Leonardi, Zanato, ''Magia del colore. Chiese affrescate della Marca Trevigiana'', Vianello libri, 2008. *Giorgio Tagliaferro, ''Tiziano Vecellio. Madonna col Bambino in gloria e santi Andrea e Pietro'', in ''Lungo le vie di Tiziano. I luoghi e le opere di Tiziano, Francesco, Orazio e Marco Vecellio tra Vittorio Veneto e il Cadore'', a. c. di M. Mazza, Skira, 2007, pp. 54–65. *

Ernst Gombrich Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich (; ; 30 March 1909 – 3 November 2001) was an Austrian-born art historian who, after settling in England in 1936, became a naturalised British citizen in 1947 and spent most of his working life in the United Kin ...

- Dizionario della Pittura e dei Pittori - Einaudi Editore (1997) 16th-century Italian painters {{Italy-painter-stub