The Bolognese Marcantonio Franceschini was a young age student of Giovanni Maria Galli da Bibiena (1625-1665) and worked from the age of 20 in the workshop Carlo Cignanis (1628-1719) in the... Read full biography
The Bolognese Marcantonio Franceschini was a young age student of Giovanni Maria Galli da Bibiena (1625-1665) and worked from the age of 20 in the workshop Carlo Cignanis (1628-1719) in the Emilia-Romagna on numerous commissions, notably frescoes. Early 30s he set up his own workshop and acquired... Read full biography
The Bolognese Marcantonio Franceschini was a young age student of Giovanni Maria Galli da Bibiena (1625-1665) and worked from the age of 20 in the workshop Carlo Cignanis (1628-1719) in the Emilia-Romagna on numerous commissions, notably frescoes. Early 30s he set up his own workshop and acquired in a short time a reputation beyond the country's borders. For Franceschini significant contracts included the decoration of the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa in 1685, as well as numerous works from 1692... Read full biography
The Bolognese Marcantonio Franceschini was a young age student of Giovanni Maria Galli da Bibiena (1625-1665) and worked from the age of 20 in the workshop Carlo Cignanis (1628-1719) in the Emilia-Romagna on numerous commissions, notably frescoes. Early 30s he set up his own workshop and acquired in a short time a reputation beyond the country's borders. For Franceschini significant contracts included the decoration of the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa in 1685, as well as numerous works from 1692 until his death commissioned by Fürst Johann Adam Andreas I von Liechtenstein, for whom he had been working as an art agent, and in 1711 the appointment by Pope Clement XI. the design of the Choir Chapel of St. Peter in Rome. A lot of the incoming of... Read full biography
The Bolognese Marcantonio Franceschini was a young age student of Giovanni Maria Galli da Bibiena (1625-1665) and worked from the age of 20 in the workshop Carlo Cignanis (1628-1719) in the Emilia-Romagna on numerous commissions, notably frescoes. Early 30s he set up his own workshop and acquired in a short time a reputation beyond the country's borders. For Franceschini significant contracts included the decoration of the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa in 1685, as well as numerous works from 1692 until his death commissioned by Fürst Johann Adam Andreas I von Liechtenstein, for whom he had been working as an art agent, and in 1711 the appointment by Pope Clement XI. the design of the Choir Chapel of St. Peter in Rome. A lot of the incoming of foreign nobles ordered his work but he refused because he did not want to leave his hometown for a long time. Nevertheles... Read full biography
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