FRANZ, a distinguished Flemish painter, born at Antwerp in 1520. He began the study of art as a sculptor, but in his twentieth year laid aside the chisel and devoted himself to the more congenial pursuit of painting. A pilgrimage to Italy, and a careful study of the great masters of Italian art, so modified his taste and manner that on returning to his native city he adopted their style and attained such eminence in it as to earn the title of the Flemish Raphael. His best works are his "Twelve Labours of Hercules," and "The Last Judgment," now in the Museum at Brussels; and his "Adoration of the Shepherds," and "Fall of the Rebel Angels," at Antwerp. Floris died in 1570.