Battista Franco Veneziano aka Giovanni Battista Franco, il Semolei or Battista Franco, before 1510 – 1561. Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker in etching active in Rome, Urbino, and Venice in the mid 16th century. From Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori or Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects by Vasari, published 1829.

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