Frank Sinatra continued his legendary career, and was joined by Mario Lanza, Perry Como, Dean Martin ( Dino Crocetti ), Tony Bennett ( Benedetto ), Frankie Laine ( Francesco LoVecchio ), Vic Damone ( Vito Farinola ), Don Cornell ( Luigi Varlaro ), Bobby Darin ( Walden Cassotto ), Johnny Desmond ( Giovanni De Simone ), Bobby Rydell ( Ridarelli ), Julius La Rosa, Connie Francis ( Concetta Franconero ), Joanie James ( Giovanna Babbo ), Madonna and a host of others.

During the 1980s and 1990s, Ritts photographed celebrities such as Diana Ross, Christopher Reeve, Belinda Carlisle, Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Michael Jordan, Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Francesco Clemente, George Clooney, Cher, Mel Gibson, Elizabeth Taylor, Brad Pitt, Ronald Reagan, Julia Roberts, Steven Hawking, Nicole Kidman, Edward Norton, Tom Cruise, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dizzy Gillespie, Elton John, Annette Benning, Antonio Banderas, Richard Gere, Jack Nicholson, Cindy Crawford, and Tina Turner.

The Madonna is here depicted with various saints, the archangel Michael and St. Maurice holding her mantle, which is extended over the kneeling Francesco Gonzaga, amid a profusion of rich festooning and other accessory.

* Perugino's Madonna and Child with Saints and San Francesco al Prato Resurrection

Madonna with St Francis and St John the Evangelist, Basilica of San Francesco d ' Assisi

Image: Pietro Lorenzetti 002. jpg | Madonna dei Tramonti, c. 1330, Basilica of San Francesco d ' Assisi, Assisi, Italy

A statue of John the Baptist as a boy is in the Bargello ; also a delicate relief of the Madonna and Child, an Ecce Homo, and a bust of Francesco Sassetti.

The so-called Madonna del Latte on a pillar in the Church of Santa Croce is a memorial to Francesco Neri, who fell by the stab intended for Lorenzo de ' Medici.

Santa Maria delle Grazie al Calcinaio was built in 1484-1515 by Francesco di Giorgio Martini in connection with an alleged miracle-performing image of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the " Madonna del Calcinaio ".

There are the 14th century Madonna with Child and Saints by Taddeo Gaddi, the 15th century Adoration of the Magi by Francesco d ' Antonio and St. Felicity with Her Seven Sons by Neri di Bicci.

At Rome the Litany of Loreto was introduced into the Basilica of S. Maria Maggiore by Cardinal Francesco Toledo in 1597 ; and Paul V, in 1613, ordered it to be sung in that church, morning and evening, on Saturdays and on vigils and feasts of the Madonna.

* Francesco Bassano ( Madonna in Glory and St John the Baptist preaching in the new sacristy, the latter including portraits of Bassano's family and Titian )

Another of his principal pictures is in San Francesco di Matelica ; in Berlin is a Madonna and Saints ( 1491 ); in the Vatican Gallery a Dead Christ, in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg is an Adoration of the Shepherds and in the Brera of Milan the Madonna of the Candle.

If was built between 1594 and 1606 by Francesco Zamberlan of Bassano, a pupil of Palladio, to house a miraculous image of a sitting Madonna with Child carrying a rose.

* Madonna and child with saints ( oil on canvas ): Gubbio, church of Sant ' Francesco della Pace

Dominici, Michael, John the Baptist and John the Evangelist "), Sandro Botticelli (" Lamentation of Christ "), Fra Filippo Lippi (" The Annunciation "), Lorenzo Lotto (" The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine "), Raphael (" The Canigiani Holy Family ") (" Madonna della tenda "), (" Madonna Tempi "), Leonardo da Vinci (" Madonna of the Carnation "), Antonello da Messina (" Annunciata "), Titian (" Vanity ") (" Charles V "), Tintoretto (" Christ in the House of Mary and Martha "), Guido Reni (" The Assumption of the Virgin "), Luca Giordano (" A cynical philosopher "), Tiepolo (" The Adoration of the Kings "), Francesco Guardi (" Regatta on the Canale della Guidecca "), Canaletto (" Piazetta in Venice ") and others.

File: Madonna and Child with St John-Bacchiacca ( 1525 ). jpg | Francesco Bacchiacca, Madonna and Child with St John, 1525

It houses noteworthy artworks including paintings by Francesco Botticini, a terracotta by Luca della Robbia, an altarpiece ( 1785 ) by Zanobi del Rosso and a triptych by Lorenzo di Bicci portraying the Madonna in Throne with Saints.

Madonna and Child in a Landscape ( c. 1540 ) by Francesco Bacchiacca.

The main altarpiece depicts a Madonna and Child with Saints Teresa and Joseph by a follower of Francesco Solimena.

Francesco del Cossa ( c. 1430 – c. 1477 ) was an Italian early-Renaissance ( or Quattrocento ) painter of the School of Ferrara.

Bernini was also a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture along with his contemporaries, the architect, Francesco Borromini and the painter and architect, Pietro da Cortona.

Aspects of his work on the studies of anatomy, light and the landscape were assembled for publication by his pupil Francesco Melzi and eventually published as Treatise on Painting by Leonardo da Vinci in France and Italy in 1651 and Germany in 1724, with engravings based upon drawings by the Classical painter Nicholas Poussin.

* Francesco di Giorgio Martini ( 1439 – 1502 ), Italian painter, sculptor, architect and military engineer

* 1657 – Francesco Solimena, Italian painter ( d. 1747 )

The first possible historical reference to the vase is in a 1601 letter from the French scholar Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc to the painter Peter Paul Rubens, where it is recorded as in the collection of Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte in Italy.

* Francesco Guardi, Italian painter

* December 21 – Francesco Hayez, Italian painter ( b. 1791 )

** Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter ( b. 1606 )

** Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter ( d. 1680 )

* January 26 – Francesco Guardi, Italian painter ( b. 1712 )

* July 4 – Francesco Bassano the Younger, Italian painter ( b. 1559 )

* December 9 – Giovanni Francesco Barbieri ( Guercino ), Italian painter ( b. 1591 )

* February 8 – Giovanni Francesco Barbieri ( Guercino ), Italian painter ( d. 1666 )

* August 17 – Francesco Albani, Italian painter ( d. 1660 )

** Francesco Primaticcio, Italian painter, architect, and sculptor ( b. 1504 )

* October 4 – Francesco Albani, Italian painter ( b. 1578 )

* August 15 – Francesco Zuccarelli, painter, elected to the Venetian Academy in 1763 ( d. 1788 )

** Francesco Bassano the Younger, Italian painter ( d. 1592 )

* January 5 – Francesco Raibolini, Italian painter ( b. c. 1450 )

* Francesco Menzio ( 1899-1979 ), painter.

Under Francesco II the famous Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna worked in Mantua as court painter, producing some of his most outstanding works.

Francesco Zuccarelli ( 15 August 1702 – 30 December 1788 ) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque period.

On the wall hangs a portrait of Diane de Poitiers as Diane the Huntress, by Francesco Primaticcio, a painter of the Fontainebleau School.

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri ( February 8, 1591 – December 22, 1666 ), best known as Guercino or Il Guercino, was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from the region of Emilia, and active in Rome and Bologna.