Francesco Lola (active 1393–1419) was an Italian painter, active in

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

Biography

Little is known of his biography. Some refer to him as ''Francesco di Andrea'' or the name is associated with ''Francesco de Andreolo Lola''. He is known to have collaborated in 1410 with Michele di Matteo in painting processional standards to celebrate the arrival in Bologna of the antipope Alexander V. He also painted frescoes depicting the ''Enthroned Madonna and Child with Saints'' and ''St Agatha Crowned by Angels'' in the Capella del Crocifisso (Pepoli Chapel) in

San Petronio, Bologna The Basilica of San Petronio is a minor basilica and church of the Archdiocese of Bologna located in Bologna, Emilia Romagna, northern Italy. It dominates Piazza Maggiore. The basilica is dedicated to the patron saint of the city, Saint Petronius ...

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, depiction of ''Enthroned Madonna''.

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