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Giacomo Franco

1550 – 1620

Italian publisher, painter, and etcher

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About Giacomo Franco

Lived 1550 – 1620 (aged 69–70). Giacomo Franco was an Italian graphic artist, painter and visual artist.

Intaglio engraving by Giacomo Franco for Il ballarino by Fabritio Caroso, republished in 1630 under the title: Raccolta di varij balli fatti in occorrenze di nozze e festini da nobili cavalieri e dame di di diuerse nationi Biblioteca Nacional de España. Giacomo Franco (1550 in Urbino (?) – 1620 in Venice) was an Italian engraver and publisher.

He illustrated books with etchings and engravings, such as Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta's Il ballarino (1581), reprinted several times, Ovid's Metamorphoses in the Venetian edition of 1584, and Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata in the first illustrated edition, printed in Genoa in 1590.

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Important facts

Born

1550, Urbino

Birth century

16th century

Died

28 June 1620, Venice

Occupation

Graphic artist, painter, visual artist

Nationality

Republic of Venice

People in Giacomo Franco's life

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Contemporaries

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Gerardus Mercator

1512 – 1594

Mathematician

Henry FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel

1512 – 1580

Courtier

Iñigo López de Mendoza y Mendoza

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

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Italian publisher, painter, and etcher (1550-1620)

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Giacomo Franco was born in 1550 in Urbino.

When did Giacomo Franco die?

Giacomo Franco died on 28 June 1620 in Venice.

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Giacomo Franco was a graphic artist, painter and visual artist.

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Giacomo Franco was Italian.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Giacomo Franco

· Wikidata: Q3762105

· DBpedia: Giacomo Franco

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