FRANCIA (Francefia), a celebrated Bolognese painter, born in 1450. He was first a goldsmith or jeweller, afterwards a graver of coins and medals; but applying at last to painting, obtained great reputation by his works, particularly by a piece of St Sebastian, whom he had drawn bound to a tree with his hands
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tied over his head. He pined himself into a consumption, by despairing to equal Raphael; and died in 1518.