Francesco Vecellio

Francesco Vecellio (c. 1475 – 1560) was a Venetian painter of the Italian Renaissance.

He was the elder brother and close collaborator of the painter Tiziano Vecellio ("Titian").

Vecellio was born in Pieve di Cadore, in the Republic of Venice, in either 1475 or 1483;[1] he was the elder brother and close collaborator of the painter Tiziano Vecellio ("Titian").

[1] He then worked as a painter; in 1530 he painted the shutters of the organ of the church of San Salvador in Venice.

[1] He painted an Annunciation for San Nicola di Bari, now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, along with Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome and Saint Dorothy (Glasgow).