Mariano de Franceschi

…for forty years. They are auction catalogues. Every one lists «M. DE FRANCESCHI» among a column of painters — Cattermole, Kilburne, Ten Kate, Streeton, Chevalier — because a Roman painter's canvases were being sold at Gemmell, Tuckett & Co. Mariano de Franceschi, born 1849, is already on this archive's own notables page, and thirty-five of its Australian «hits» are his signature in a sale list. This is the ANNO street-name lesson again and it did not announce itself: there the name was a Pola street and…

…— Graziadio da Foligno, a rabbi who on baptism took the name Alessandro Franceschi in homage to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. The surname in this instance is not descent but conversion: a name chosen, not inherited. mariano Mariano de Franceschi b. 1849 Rome Painting mariano-caravan Trained at the Accademia di San Luca and under the Spaniard Baldomero Galofre; debuted at the Amatori e Cultori exhibition in Rome in 1876 with a still life, then…

…of Corone Koper Born at Koper in Istria; died at Udine unproven Alessandro de Franceschi 1545–1601 Dominican Bishop of Forlì Forlì no Mariano de Franceschi b. 1849 Painter Rome Academia di San Luca; exhibited Turin 1884, Rome 1888, Venice unproven Carlo de Franceschi 1900–1972 Historian Trieste → Venice…

…Held entirely, pending a decision. The 62 pre-1940 articles are read, and 35 of them are one dead painter. Every «Advertising» hit from 1879 to 1921 is an auction catalogue listing «M. DE FRANCESCHI» among a column of painters — Mariano de Franceschi, b. 1849, who is already on this archive's notables page. The name is in the Melbourne papers for forty years and the man was never in Australia. Ten real people were under them, now on the roster with no dates, because a newspaper names without…