raibaloni

Updated: July 12, 2025

Francesco Francia, or Il Francia, was born at Bologna, and was the son of a carpenter, whose surname was Raibaloni, but Francesco assumed the name of his master, a goldsmith, and worked himself at a goldsmith's trade till he was forty years of age.

Sarah Tytler - The Old Masters and Their Pictures: For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art