• Also called Giacomo Raibolini Jacopo Francia.
• Was an Italian painter and engraver.
• Francia was born in Bologna as elder son of Francesco Raibolini (Francesco Francia), and like his father was also called il Francia.
• His father and brother Giulio Raibolini were also artists.
• In 1517, the year of his father's death, he and his brother, Giulio, assumed responsibility for the family business and together executed many church altarpieces, identifiable by the initials (I I) of their Latinized names (Iacobus and Iulius).
• Late in life Giacomo came under the influence of
Dosso Dossi.
• He died in Bologna in 1567.
• Giacomo's earliest known work is the Virgin in Glory with Saints Peter, Mary Magdalene, Francis, Martha and Six Nuns (after 1515; Picacoteca Nazionale, Bologna).
