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| Marcantonio Franceschini Guardian Angel 1716 oil on canvas Dulwich Picture Gallery, London |
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| Marcantonio Franceschini Cupid fleeing from the wounded Venus before 1729 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Marcantonio Franceschini Lot and his Daughters after 1676-77 oil on canvas Dulwich Picture Gallery, London |
"Marcantonio Franceschini was a painter from Bologna [not related to the earlier 17th-century Florentine painter, Baldassare Franceschini]. Giampietro Zanotti, the painter and art historian, described Marcantonio as a good man with an honest manner who liked to play the lute when he was taking a break from his painting. His brother Petronio was a musician. Franceschini was the favourite pupil of Carlo Cignani; a fellow pupil, Luigi Quaini, later became a close collaborator.
Franceschini worked in Genoa, Modena, Piacenza and Rome. Although his work was in considerable demand from foreign clients, he disliked leaving Bologna for long. His main foreign patron was Prince Adam John of Liechtenstein who, in 1692, commissioned him to paint 26 canvases for his palace near Vienna. The original request was for frescoes, but was amended when Franceschini refused to leave Bologna. Zanotti noted that the artist had so much work that he had to paint even at night."
– from biographical notes at the Royal Collection, Windsor
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| Marcantonio Franceschini Birth of Apollo and Diana ca. 1692-1709 oil on canvas Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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| Marcantonio Franceschini Apollo and Diana slaying Python ca. 1692-1709 oil on canvas Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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| Marcantonio Franceschini Venus and Adonis hunting a Stag ca. 1692-1709 oil on canvas Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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| Marcantonio Franceschini Death of Adonis ca. 1692-1709 oil on canvas Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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| Marcantonio Franceschini Metamorphosis of the Dead Adonis ca. 1692-1709 oil on canvas Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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| Marcantonio Franceschini Christ and the Samaritan Woman ca. 1700 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Marcantonio Franceschini Noli me tangere ca. 1700 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Marcantonio Franceschini Adam and Eve ca. 1680 oil on canvas Mauritshuis, The Hague |
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| Marcantonio Franceschini St Francis de Sales in the Wilderness ca. 1700 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Marcantonio Franceschini Virgin and Child with St Elizabeth and St John the Baptist before 1729 oil on canvas Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Marcantonio Franceschini Last Communion of St Mary of Egypt 1680 oil on copper Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |