The Bolognese school of painting, also known as the school of Bologna, flourished between the 16th and 17th centuries in Bologna, which rivalled Florence and Rome as the centre of painting in Italy.
Annibale Carracci, the Cyclops Polyphemus in his frescos for the Palazzo Farnese
Portrait likely to be of Isabella d'Este, attributed to Francesco Francia, 1511
Deposition of Christ by Prospero Fontana, 1563
Domenichino, Saint Cecilia Distributing Alms, fresco, 1612–15, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome
Francesco Brizio was an Italian painter and engraver of the Bolognese School, active in the early-Baroque.
Francesco Brizio, St Catherine's mystic communion, Basilica of San Domenico, Bologna