Francesco Montemezzano

Ceiling of San Nicolò dei Mendicoli Venice
Biography of Francesco Montemezzano by Ridolfi

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]

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