Francesco Montemezzano
Francesco Montemezzano or Monte Mezzano (Verona 1555–after 1602) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period.
He was born near Verona, and appears to have been a follower, if not a pupil, of Paolo Veronese.[1] He was active both in Venice and the mainland, painting mainly sacred subjects.[2]
He completed some of the panels for the church of San Nicolò dei Mendicoli in the Venetian district of Dorsoduro. Ridolfi in a short biography notes that Francesco gave himself excessively to the pleasures of love, fell in love with expensive objects and this led to an early death by poisoning.[3]
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He was featured in the BBC One television programme Fake or Fortune? on 19 July 2015, in which a painting in an English church, St John the Baptist Church, Tunstall, Lancashire was verified as being by the artist.[4]
References[]
- ^ Metropolitan Museum Collections.
- ^ Enciclopedia Treccani, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 76 (2012), entry by Giorgio Tagliaferro
- ^ Le Maraviglie dell'arte: overo le vite de gl'illustri pittori Veneti, Volume 2, By Carlo Ridolfi, 1648, page 334.
- ^ "BBC One - Fake or Fortune?, Series 4, A Mystery Old Master".
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- Italian Paintings, Venetian School, a collection catalog containing information about Montemezzano and his work (see index; plate 49).
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- 1540 births
- 1602 deaths
- 16th-century Italian painters
- Italian male painters
- Painters from Verona
- Painters from Venice
- Mannerist painters
- Deaths by poisoning
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