Francesco Vecellio

Francesco Vecellio, Saint Antonio Searches with Great Interest for the Heart in the Coffin

Francesco Vecellio (c. 1475 – 1560) was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance, best known as the elder brother of the painter Titian. In his youth, he was a soldier. As a painter, he was mainly active in 1520-1530s in Cadore. In 1524, he signed an altarpiece for San Vito in Cadore. In 1540s, he painted a polyptych at Candide. In late 1540s he painted the organ shutters of San Salvatore in Venice. He painted an Annunciation for San Nicola di Bari, now in the Accademia.

In popular culture

In Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy, a Facebook game and tie-in for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Francesco Vecellio is depicted as a member of the Assassin Order.

References

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves. ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 639. http://books.google.com/books?id=K2cCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Michael+Bryan+Painters+Engravers#PPP7,M1. 
• Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Pelican History of Art. ed. Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. Penguin Books. pp. 345–346.