Career
He was influenced by Giovanni Bellini. He is best known for founding a studio that that trained Francesco Rizzo, who inherited the studio after his master’s demise, and later Palma il Vecchio and Andrea Previtali. His main pupil Francesco Rizzo is also sometimes known as Francesco da Santacroce.
Finally Simone Ferrucci is a Quattrocento sculptor also known as Francesco di Simone Ferrucci.