(1499) in the Bentivoglio Chapel at S. Giacomo Maggiore, and the two most chaste fresco scenes of the Marriage and the Funeral of St Cecilia (1506) in the Oratory of the same name; in London: the lunette of the Pietà in the National Gallery; in Rome: the praying St Stephen in the Borghese Gallery, and the small, delightful St George in the National Gallery (formerly Corsini). In the last years of his activity Francia became affected, and was already surpassed when he died, leaving a good number of followers among whom, alongside the best, who was Timoteo della Vite of Urbino, are numbered his sons: Giacomo (b. c. 1486, d. 1557) and Giulio (b. 1487, d. 1540), mediocre painters. — V. pl. CXII.
Bibl.: C. C. Williamson, F. Raibolini detto il F., London 1901; T. Gerwitz, F. F. nell’evoluzione della pittura bolognese, in Rassegna d’arte, 8 (1908), pp. 122-3, 139 ff.; G. Lipparini, F. Raibolini detto il F., Bergamo 1913; Venturi, VII, 111, pp. 852-952; G. Gronau, s.V. in Thieme-Becker, XII, pp. 319-323; R. Longhi, Officina ferrarese, Rome 1934, p. 66 ff. Alberto Nepi.