Marcantonio Franceschini (1648–1729)

• Was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
• He was the father and teacher of Giacomo Franceschini.

• He was a pupil of Carlo Cignani, with whom he worked on the frescoes in the Palazzo del Giardino in Parma (1678–81).

• He worked closely for many years with his brother-in-law, Luigi Quaini, who also was the cousin of Cignani.

• Franceschini decorated some ceilings in the Palazzo Ranuzzi (1680) and the Palazzo Marescotti Brazzetti (1682) in Bologna.

• He helped paint in the tribune at church of San Bartolomeo Porta Ravegnana (1690).

• Franceschini frescoed the ceiling of the Sala d'Onore in the Ducal Palace of Modena, commissioned in 1696 for the marriage of Rinaldo d'Este to Princess Charlotte Felicity of Brunswick.

• He painted 26 canvases of the Seductions and Loves of the Diana and Venus (1692-1700) for the Viennese palace of Prince Johann Adam I of Liechtenstein.

• He also served as a buyer for the art-patron Prince.

• In Genoa, he also painted for the palaces Spinola and the Palazzo Pallavicini (1715) of Genoa.

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