Niccolò Franchini

Niccolò Franchini (1704-1783) was an Italian painter, active in Siena, depicting mainly religious canvases in a late-Baroque style.

Biography

Return of Pope Gregory XI to Rome with Catherine of Siena .

The Bichi Chapel of the Church of Sant'Agostino has an altarpiece of San Cristoforo (1755) that replaced the former triptych by Luca Signorelli.[1] He also has works in the Church of San Giorgio in Siena.[2] He also painted the ceiling of the oratory of the painters guild in Siena, adjacent to the church of San Virgilio.[3] He painted a Return of Pope Gregory XI to Rome with Catherine of Siena once in the Oratory of the Santissimi Crocefisso, later University of Pisa.[4]

Luigi Lanzi in his exhaustive review of Italian painters places him at the end of the decline in Sienese painters, citing only praises in his roles as a restorer:[5]

in restoring injured specimens to their original beauty, without applying to them a fresh pencil, and in supplying the faded colours with others taken from paintings of less value, he entitled himself, in fact, to the praise of a new discovery.

References

  1. ↑ Via de Siena website, entry on the church of Sant'Agostino.
  2. ↑ Scoprire Siena website entry on Church of San Giorgio.
  3. ↑ Artistic Guide to Siena and Its Environs, Second Edition, 1908, page 86.
  4. ↑ Saint Catherine of Siena and Her Times, page 191.
  5. ↑ Lanzi, Luigi (1828). Thomas Roscoe (translator), ed. History of Painting in Italy; from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the 18th-Century: Schools of Florence and Siena. I. London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. p. 454.
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