Francesco Vecellio

Francesco Vecellio was a Venetian painter of the Italian Renaissance. Vecellio was born in Pieve di Cadore, in the Republic of Venice, in either 1475 or 1483; he was the elder brother and close collaborator of the painter Tiziano Vecellio. He was a soldier, and fought in battles at Vienna and at Verona. He then worked as a painter; in 1530 he painted the shutters of the organ of the church of San [Salvador, Venice|San Salvador] in Venice. From about 1534 he worked as a wood-engraver. 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].
He died in Pieve di Cadore in 1559 or 1560.