Francesco Montemezzano
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Francesco Montemezzano or Monte Mezzano (ca. 1540–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 Nicolo dei Mendicoli. 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]
Media
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's 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 137.
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b063cy0z/fake-or-fortune-series-4-3-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).