Francesco Lojacono or Lo Jacono (1838–1915) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes and seascapes, and mainly active in his native Palermo, Sicily.

[1] Francesco Lojacono won a gold medal for a small canvas presented at an exhibition in Palermo, and this gained him a stipend to move in 1856 to Naples, where attended the school of Filippo Palizzi.

[2] With the outbreak of revolution in 1860, he returned to Sicily,[3] he served in Garibaldi’s expedition of one thousand volunteers in 1860 and participated in the march towards Rome in 1862, when he was taken prisoner on the Aspromonte.

Once free, he devoted his energies to painting intensely lyrical landscapes drawing inspiration in particular from the area around Agrigento and later the coast near Palermo.

[5] One of his pupils was Michele Catti, who together with Lojacono and Antonio Leto forms the so-called canonical triad of the Sicilian landscape artists of the Belle Époque.