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<body background="Backgrounds/bkgd2.jpg"> <h2 align="center"><font color="#FF0000">Franciabigio (1484 - 1525)</font></h2> <p align="center"><font size="2">The greatest wisdom and prudence that a man can possess is to know himself, and to refrain from exalting himself beyond his true worth (Georgio </font><a href="http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/giorgio.vasari/artlinks.htm"><font size="2">Vasari</font></a><font size="2">)</font></p> <p><font color="#499BB6"><strong><u>Francesco di Cristofano</u></strong></font>, called Franciabigio, was born on January 30, 1484, in Santa Maria in Verzaia. His father, Cristofano di Milano, was a poor cloth-maker, and when he died, the family subsisted on what Franciabigio earned with his brush, which may be why he never married.</p> <p>Franciabigio painted frescoes, altarpieces and portraits, for which he is chiefly remembered. He died in Florence, on January 14, 1525, most likely of bubonic plague, and was buried in San Pancrazio.</p> <p>See his <a href="vasari.html"><strong>biography</strong></a> from Georgio Vasari, <font size="3"><em>Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects</em>.</font></p> <table border="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td><a href="franciabigio%20louvre.html"><img src="Pictures/Louvre%20portrait.jpg" alt="Enlarged representation (Louvre)" align="left" border="0" hspace="0" width="152" height="210"></a></td> <td><a href="franciabigio%20uffizi.html"><img src="Pictures/Uffizi%20portrait.jpg" alt="Enlarged representation (the Offices in Florence)" border="0" width="162" height="208"></a></td> <td><a href="franciabigio%20hampton.html"><img src="Pictures/Hampton%20portrait.jpg" alt="Enlarged representation (Hampton Court)" border="0" width="156" height="208"></a></td> <td><a href="franciabigio%20rhodes.html"><img src="Pictures/Rhodes%20portrait.jpg" alt="Enlarged representation (National Gallery of London)" border="0" width="146" height="207"></a></td> <td><a href="franciabigio%20berlin.html"><img src="Pictures/Berlin%20portrait.jpg" alt="Enlarged representation (Berlin)" align="top" border="0" width="158" height="205"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><p align="center"><a href="franciabigio%20louvre.html"><strong>Paris</strong></a></p> </td> <td align="center"><p align="center"><a href="franciabigio%20uffizi.html"><strong>Florence</strong></a></p> </td> <td align="center" valign="top"><a href="franciabigio%20hampton.html"><strong>Hampton Court</strong></a></td> <td align="center"><p align="center"><a href="franciabigio%20rhodes.html"><strong>London</strong></a></p> </td> <td><p align="center"><a href="franciabigio%20berlin.html"><strong>Berlin</strong></a></p> </td> </tr> </table> <p align="left">See also:</p> <p align="left">The <a href="franciabigio%20vienna.html"><strong>Vienna</strong></a><strong> </strong>portrait, attributed to Franciabigio, and his <a href="franciabigio%20madonna.html"><strong>Madonna at the Well</strong></a><strong> </strong>at the Uffizi.</p> <p align="left"><u>Bibliography</u>:<br> <font size="2"><br> McKillop, Susan Regan: </font><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0520016882/qid=927772687/002-6092980-5971209"><font size="2"><em>Franciabigio</em></font></a><font size="2">. Berkeley : University of California Press <em>or</em>: Hacker Art Books, 1974.<br> Vasari, Georgio: <em>Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, </em>1538.</font><a target="_top" href="http://alum.mit.edu/www/matushan/"><img src="Pictures/home.gif" alt="Home (absolute)" align="left" border="0" hspace="0" width="32" height="32"></a></p> </body>