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 66 FRANCIABIGIO— GABRIELO. Virgin's bead and destroying some por- tions, and the injuries still remain, as a monument of his own folly, — ^no re- ward, it seems, that the monks o£fered could induce him to restore his work : his brother artists dared not Francia- higio was a good portrait-painter. Works, Florence, in the court of the Scalzo, two pictures from the life of the Baptist : Sma. Annunziata, the court, the Marriage of the Virgin: Poggio a Caiano, frescoes. Dresden Gallery, David and Bathsheba (1523). Berlin Gallery, portrait of a young man (1522). {Va$ari.) FRANCO, Battista, called II Semo- lei, 6. at Udine, 1498, d,2X Venice, 1561. Tuscan School. He studied at Home, and is among the good imitators of Michelangelo; with whose style he combined some of the excellences of Venetian colouring. He is rarely met with in picture galleries, and in his larger works he is somewhat mannered : he executed a few. pictures from the designs of Michelangelo. He was a pupil of Marc Antonio, in the art of engraving, in which he is well known, but he engraved almost exclusively his own designs. Franco was the master of Baroccio. W<yrks. Venice, San Francesco della Vigna, the Baptism of Christ; and the Raising of Lazarus (fresco). Ducal Palace, in the Library; and gro- tesques in the Scala D'Oro. Berlin Mu- seum, portrait of Sansovino. ( Vdsari^ Zanetti.) FRANCO, BoLOGNESE. [Da Bo- logna.] FRANCUCCI. [Da Imola.] FURINI, Francesco, 6. at Florence, about 1600, d. 1649. Tuscan School. The son of Filippo Fuiinij and a pupil of Passignano and Matteo Roselli. He was also a diligent student of the works of Guido, and was most suc- cessful in portraits and cabinet pictures, in imitation of that master, and some- what after the taste of Albano, in which he represented nymphs, satyrs, the Graces, &o. He painted also historical and religious subjects. The Three Graces for the Strozzi family : Hylas and the Nymphs for the Galli: the Marriage of the Virgin for a Dr. Lo- renzi, as a companion piece to a Mag- dalen by Carlo Dolci : and many other pictures sacred and profane, chiefly Nymphs and Magdalens, mostly half- length figures, of the natural size, are enumerated by Baldinncci; and the minority are still in the possession of private families in Florence. When about forty years of age Furini became , priest, and was made curate of Sant' Ansano in Mugello, but he still con- tinued to paint He has been called both the Guido and the Albano of Florence, GABBIANI, Antonio, Dom£nico, 6. at Florence, 1652, d, 1726. Tuscan School. An able pupil of Vincenzio Dandini, and of Ciro Ferri, at Rome; but his colouring is somewhat languid, notwithstanding his sojourn at Venice, and his merit unequal, though he was one of the principal painters of his time, in fresco and in oil. He best represented children, or Amorini, He also painted portraits, and was skilful in landscape and animal painting. He died through a fall from a scaffolding, in his seventy-fourth year. His pupil, Ignatius Hugford, published a life of Gabbiani at Florence, in 1762. Works. Florentine Gallery, several subjects: Pitti Palace, frescoes ; church of the Padri dell' Oratorio, San Filippo. Costello, the cupola. Poggio a Cajano, frescoes. ( Lanzi, ) GABRIELO, Onofbio, called also Onofrio da Messina, 6. at Messina, 1616, d, there, 1706. He studied, first, under Antonio Ricci, called Barbalonga, then, owing to political drcnmstances,