(b Imola, c. 1490; d Bologna, c. 1545). Italian painter. He probably trained with Francesco Francia in Bologna c. 1508 and then with Mariotto Albertinelli in Florence for a period between 1510 and 1515. His earliest known work, the Virgin and Child with SS Sebastian, Roch, Cosmas and Damian, signed and dated 1515, is in the Chiesa Archipretale at Bagnara, Ravenna. It is a classical composition of Florentine derivation, with the Virgin and Child appearing on a cloud above the four saints. His Florentine training is even more evident in the Virgin and Child with SS John, Apollinaris and Catherine and a Bishop, signed and dated 1516, for S Apollinare at C?sola Valsenio, near Bologna.
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