Francesco Lola

Francesco Lola (active 1393–1419) was an Italian painter, active in Bologna.

Biography

Little is known of his biography. Some refer to him as Francesco di Andrea[1] or the name is associated with Francesco de Andreolo Lola.[2] He is known to have collaborated in 1410 with Michele di Matteo in painting processional standards to celebrate the arrival in Bologna of the antipope Alexander V.[3] He also painted frescoes depicting the Enthroned Madonna and Child with Saints and St Agatha Crowned by Angels[4] in the Capella del Crocifisso (Pepoli Chapel) in San Petronio, Bologna.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Treccani, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 3 (1961), entry on Francesco Anguilla by Isa Belli Barsali.
  2. ↑ Fondazione Zeri.
  3. ↑ The Samuel H. Kress Study Collection at the University of Missouri, by Norman E. Land, page 23.
  4. ↑ Getty Images, depiction of St Agatha Crowned by Angels.
  5. ↑ Getty Images, depiction of Enthroned Madonna.


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