Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci da Imola

The Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine, Filangieri Museum, Naples.

Innocenzo (di Pietro) Francucci (c. 1490 – c. 1550), generally known as Innocenzo da Imola, was an Italian painter and draftsman.

Biography

The son of a goldsmith named Pietro, he was born in Imola sometime around 1490. After presumably studying with his father in Imola, by 1506 he had moved to nearby Bologna to study painting.

His earliest known works include The Virgin and Child with Saints Sebastian, Roch, Cosmas and Damian was signed and dated in 1515. The Virgin and Child with Saints John, Apollinaris and Catherine and a Bishop, signed and dated in 1516. This second painting is in Cásola Valsenio, near Bologna.

During his life he produced a series of religious frescoes and altarpieces, painted in a Raphaelesque manner. His only secular paintings are five mythological frescoes in the Palazzina della Viola in Bologna. The Virgin and Child with Saints John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, Joachim and Anne (1526), Faenza Cathedral The Virgin of the Rosary (1531), church of San Domenico fuori le mura, Catania The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine of Siena, Filangieri Museum, Naples Madonna and Child in Glory and the Saints Archangel Michael, and Peter Benedict, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna St. John the Evangelist, La Salle University