The Defranceschi Archive
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Francesco de' Franceschi, the painter

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PlaceVenice · Padua
LineOut of Venice
Found inNamesake
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Painting

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Changes

…and the facts above come from those institutions' own catalogue text as quoted elsewhere. /research-log/ Sept 2026 yield The fifteenth-century Venetian painter carried on the roadmap as unfinished Francesco de' Franceschi, the painter Active 1443–1468, birth and death unknown. Religious work on church commission; the style follows Michele Giambono and he may have worked with Antonio Vivarini. An altarpiece of 1447 in the Museo Civico at Padua; a St Mary Magdalen and a St…

The Other Franceschi

…The name is the same name. Whether the Tuscan Franceschi and the Friulian-Istrian De Franceschi share an ancestor is not shown by anything in this archive, and the surname is far too common to assume it. francesco-painter Francesco de' Franceschi, the painter fl. 1443–1468 Venice· Padua Painting A Venetian painter of the middle fifteenth century whose birth and death dates are simply not known — «active 1443 to 1468» is as close as the record gets, which is itself…

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