Giacomo Franco (etcher)

[1] The natural son of Battista Franco, also a painter and engraver, he was born in 1550 probably in Urbino or perhaps in Venice, where all his known activity is recorded.

He must have trained with his father, who in his youth in Rome had executed some etchings reproducing the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel and the Raphael Rooms.

[1] He illustrated books with etchings and engravings, such as Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta's Il ballarino (1581), reprinted several times, Ovid's Metamorphoses in the Venetian edition of 1584, and Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata in the first illustrated edition, printed in Genoa in 1590.

Beginning in 1595, he also appears as a publisher of works by Agostino Carracci and Palma il Giovane, among others.

Signoria et altri particolari cioé trionfi feste e cérimonie publiche della nobilissima città di Venetia, Venice, 1610.