Faustino Raineri (died 1755) was an Italian painter, mainly a landscape painter of the

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

period, mainly active in

Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo. ...

. Raineri appears to have become a priest. He followed the style of

vedute A ''veduta'' (Italian for "view"; plural ''vedute'') is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista. The painters of ''vedute'' are referred to as ''vedutisti''. Origins This genre ...

of Antonio Tempesta, painting outdoors. His close friend Gaudenzio Botti was also his pupil. The lack of varnish in his painting has led most to decay.

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* 1755 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Brescia Year of birth unknown 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub