FRA 
ane Fettro, duke of Urbino. 
completely devote his time to i ar as to neglect his for- 
mer ftudies, but wrote feveral eflays on geometry an 
perfpective, se were long aber in the duke’s library 
at Urbino. terwards painted in Pefara, Ancona, and 
eee but fe ew of his works remain at either of thefe 
places 
Having obtained much bi dae he was fent for to 
Rome by pope Nicholas V. to paint two hiftorical fubjects 
in the chambers of the ae in concurrence with Bra- 
mante di Milano, called Bramantino; but fuch was the 
egal efteem in which the talents of Raphael were juftly 
eld when he oe years au flourifhed, that Julins IT. 
deftroyed thefe two pictures to make room for his favourite 
iene to paint in their ftead ie miracle of Bolfena, and St. 
et rifon 
Notwithnding th 
fuperior powers o 
. 
he lived. 
feeling of expreflion, and of diftr bution “f light an 
ht 
The principal work of Fran cefca was a night oun in wi h. 
he er an angel carrying a cr one and a ng in 
in his tent er his 
vifion to the emperor Conftantine fleepin 
chamberlain near him, and fome of his en The light 
which iffued from the crofs and the angel illuminated. the 
ne, and was f{pread over it with the utmoft difcretion. 
i been ftudied from nature, an 
ith great propriety and truth. e al 
painted a battle which was highly commended for the fpirit 
and fire with which it was conducted ; the ftrength of the ex- 
preflion, and the imitation of nature ; particularly a group 
of horfemen, which V 
cannot be too highly commende 
Having ex aN 7“ various talents nature had beftowed 
upon him, till he was 86 years old, . fhared ‘the common 
fate of mankind, Bole ‘die din the year 
FRANCE SCAS, in Geography, a oan of France, in the 
department of the Lot and Garonne, ae chief place of a can- 
ton in the da of Né érac ; fix miles S.E. of Nérac. - lat 
° 3", E. ° 30! e place aoe 1314, and the 
canton 7624 inhabitants, ona territory of 145 omen. in 
21 communes 
FRANCESCHELLO, i in Biography, the moft exquifite 
performer on the violoncello of his time, flourifhed early in 
The admirable Benda, firft violin to the 
king of Pruffia, (Frederic, ) and fo hs celebrated for ex- 
ife, written by himfelf, 
frequ ently 
‘ miniani ufed_ to 
nyin Nicolini, at Rome, .in a 
was an eral ge 
far did his J detente furpafs all i Scarlatti ary peer a 
: a the cantata, or imagined poffible a man to ex- 
p FRANCESCHINI, a ANTONIO, 
painter, born at Bologna in 16 
of G. Bat 
Carlo Cignani. 
~ That ma after, who foon difcovered. the talents of his pupil, 
not only formed his ftyle, but made him his relation by mar- 
affiftant, | : = 
Vou. XV. 
He did not, however, @. . 
afari faya, confidering the period, 
d.? , 
_an_ hiftorical . 
He wasat firft a difciple. 
tifta Galli, and pes him entered the fchool of t 
y ; 
rying him to his.niece, and he foon became his prop 
FRA 
He was ie in embellifhing many churehes and con- 
vents in his native nd i 
t Fran- 
cefchmi pre an his ane and eafe to a eat ac- 
quifitions eas vealth, and with — refpe&t refufed the 
offer. noa ie ainted, in the great council chamber, 
a defign, that eA once manifelted the SS of his invention, 
and the grandeur of his ideas; for moft of the memorable. 
ag GF the republic were there ie with a mul. 
titude of figures nobly ae judicious ly grouped and 
dipole and correétly e Palazzo Monti 
t Bologna is a fm ey paited. a him, of which 
oe celeron is ccediny lovely, though the figures ap- 
pear to want roundnefs. 
rance{chini, though of the fchool of Cignani, is original. 
in the fuavity of his colour, and the nd fa of his execution, 
rs.old, 
hat Gre and 
celled principally sae portrait. He died in 1689, age 
FRANCESES, in Grngraply a "final ifland near ‘the’ 
coatt of Brazil. S. Jat "12". 
FRA ANCESINA, Geacen, in Bio. a “e a at plea- 
beautif 
e in aglandy though 
r life. yi eee : 
_Itw 
natural warb <A of hhace that Handel compofed his Englith 
airs of execution, fuch as “ Sweet Bird,” in Mi ; 
forofa, “Myfelf I { 
FRANCE, 
