Francesco Bissolo

Francesco Bissolo
Presentation of Jesus at the temple , Gallerie dell'Accademia
Born	1470–72
Died	20 April 1554
Nationality	Venetian

Francesco Bissolo (1470-72 - 20 April 1554) was a Venetian painter of the Renaissance. He is also known as Pier Francesco Bissolo.

Santa Giustina in Treviso Cathedral

He is described as a pupil of Giovanni Bellini. He painted a Christ exchanging crown of thorns for crown of gold with St. Catherine for the church of il Redentore, now at the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, and a Santa Giustina in Treviso cathedral. He painted a Holy Family with donor in landscape found at the Dayton Art Institute in Ohio, United States. ^[1]

He died in the contrada of S. Marciliano on 20 April 1554 after six months of illness. ^[2]

Mother and Child in the collection of the Beecroft Art Gallery

References

• Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I: A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 131.

1. Dayton Art Institute painting Archived 3 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine .
2. Maria Maddalena Palmegiano (1968). BISSOLO, Francesco. Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 10 (in Italian). Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed July 2013.