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Italian painter (–)

Marcantonio Franceschini (Italian pronunciation:[markanˈtɔːnjofrantʃeˈskiːni]; &#; 24 December ) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mostly in his native Bologna.

He was the father and teacher of Giacomo Franceschini.^[1]

Biography

He was a pupil of Carlo Cignani, with whom he worked on the frescoes in the Palazzo del Giardino in Parma (&#;81). He worked closely for many years with his brother-in-law, Luigi Quaini, who also was the cousin of Cignani.

Franceschini had a long career painting canvases on religious and mythological subjects for patrons throughout Europe.

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Franceschini decorated some ceilings in the Palazzo Ranuzzi^[2] () and the Palazzo Marescotti Brazzetti () in Bologna. He helped paint in the tribune at church of San Bartolomeo Porta Ravegnana (). Franceschini frescoed the ceiling of the Sala d'Onore ("Hall of Honor") in the Ducal Palace of Modena, commissioned in