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| Francesco Francia Adoration of the Child ca. 1475-1500 oil on panel Musée du Louvre |
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| Francesco Francia Portrait of Bartolomeo Bianchini ca. 1485-95 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Francesco Francia Dead Christ supported by Angels ca. 1490 oil on panel Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
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| Francesco Francia Venus and Cupid ca. 1500 oil on panel Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse, Alsace |
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| Francesco Francia Adoration of the Child ca. 1500 oil on panel Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Francesco Francia Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist ca. 1500-1505 oil on panel Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia |
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| Francesco Francia St Cecilia Cycle Marriage of St Cecilia and Valeriano 1505-1506 fresco Oratorio di Santa Cecilia, Bologna |
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| Francesco Francia St Cecilia Cycle Burial of St Cecilia 1505-1506 fresco Oratorio di Santa Cecilia, Bologna |
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| Francesco Francia The Crucifixion with the Virgin, St John the Evangelist and Job ca. 1510 oil on panel Musée du Louvre |
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| Francesco Francia The Crucifixion with the Virgin, St John the Evangelist and Job (detail) ca. 1510 oil on panel Musée du Louvre |
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| Francesco Francia and workshop Dead Christ ca. 1510 oil on panel Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
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| Francesco Francia Pietà ca. 1510-12 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Francesco Francia Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist ca. 1510-15 oil on canvas Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil |
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| Francesco Francia The Lamentation ca. 1510-17 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Francesco Francia Virgin and Child and St Anne enthroned with St Sebastian, St Paul, St John the Baptist, St Lawrence and St Benedict ca. 1511-17 oil on panel, transferred to canvas National Gallery, London |
"Francesco Raibolini, known as Francia, was from Bologna. He was an important artist in his day but his fame was overshadowed by the next generation of High Renaissance painters. His soft and graceful mature style was mainly based on that of Perugino, and was popular and much imitated around Bologna. Francia, first trained by a goldsmith in Bologna, was recorded in the Bologna goldsmiths' guild in 1482. He is first recorded as a painter in 1486. Vasari, writing in 1568, said that the earlier artists of 15th-century Italy had lacked: a soft blending of colour, first observable in Francia of Bologna and Pietro Perugino. The people, when they beheld the new and living beauty, ran madly to see it, thinking it would never be possible to improve upon it."
– from curator's notes at the National Gallery, London