Battista Franco Veneziano Self-researched

Born: c. 1510, Venice Died: 1561, Venice Source: self-research

Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Rome, Urbino, and Venice. Also known as il Semolei. Contributed three ceiling tondi ("Nature, Pallas and Jupiter," "Theology before the Gods," "Natural Philosophy") and 52 grotesques to the Biblioteca Marciana decoration.