Guy François (1578 – 1650) was a French painter.
Biography
He was born in
Le Puy and travelled to Italy, where he worked in the workshop of
Carlo Saraceni
Carlo Saraceni (1579 – 16 June 1620) was an Italian early-Baroque painter, whose reputation as a "first-class painter of the second rank" was improved with the publication of a modern monograph in 1968.
Life
Though he was born and died in ...
in
Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...
during the years 1615–1619.
[Guy François]
in the RKD
The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center i ...
He signed his works "Guido Francesco".
[ He is known for religious works in the style of ]Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio, known as simply Caravaggio (, , ; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of hi ...
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He died in Le Puy-en-Velay.
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References
Guy François
on Artnet
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1578 births
1650 deaths
French painters
People from Le Puy-en-Velay
French expatriates in Italy
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