Francesco Lola

Francesco Lola (active 1393–1419) was an Italian painter, active in Bologna.

Biography

Little is known of his biography. Some refer to him as Francesco di Andrea[1] or the name is associated with Francesco de Andreolo Lola.[2] He is known to have collaborated in 1410 with Michele di Matteo in painting processional standards to celebrate the arrival in Bologna of the antipope Alexander V.[3] He also painted frescoes depicting the Enthroned Madonna and Child with Saints and St Agatha Crowned by Angels[4] in the Capella del Crocifisso (Pepoli Chapel) in San Petronio, Bologna.[5]

References
  1. Treccani, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 3 (1961), entry on Francesco Anguilla by Isa Belli Barsali.
  2. Fondazione Zeri.
  3. The Samuel H. Kress Study Collection at the University of Missouri, by Norman E. Land, page 23.
  4. Getty Images, depiction of St Agatha Crowned by Angels.
  5. Getty Images, depiction of Enthroned Madonna.


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