Francesco Montanari (1750 in

Lugo, Emilia-Romagna Lugo ( rgn, Lùgh) is a town and ''comune'' in the northern Italy, Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, in the province of Ravenna. History A settlement in where is now the city is mentioned for the first time in 782 AD, but the names Lucus appears o ...

– 1786) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassical period. He trained in Lugo under

Benedetto Dal Buono Benedetto Dal Buono (Lugo, Emilia-Romagna, 7 May 1711 – 1775) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassical period. He initially trained with a wood engraver named Paganelli from Forlì. From there, he moved to Bologna where he was associated for ...

. From there, he moved to

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

where he worked for two years in the studio of

Ubaldo Gandolfi Ubaldo Gandolfi (1728–1781) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, mainly active in and near Bologna. Biography He was born in San Matteo della Decima and enrolled by the age of 17 at the Clementine Academy, where he apprenticed w ...

, he then moved to

Ferrara Ferrara (, ; egl, Fràra ) is a city and ''comune'' in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital of the Province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream ...

to briefly work with

Girolamo Donini Girolamo Donnini (18 April 1681 – 1743) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, born in the town of Correggio, Emilia-Romagna. He was a pupil of the painters Francesco Stringa in Modena, and then of Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole in Bologna, ...

, and to

Verona Verona ( , ; vec, Verona or ) is a city on the Adige River in Veneto, Northern Italy, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region. It is the largest city Comune, municipality in the region and the ...

to work under Cignaroli. In Verona, he painted a ''Death of Rachel''. He painted a ''Jacob is brought his son's bloody clothes''. Returning to Lugo, he painted for the Franciscans a canvas depicting ''The Martyrdom of Saints Crispin and Crispiano'' and the ''Four Theologic Virtues''. Among other works, he painted canvases depicting: ''The Prodigal Son'', ''St Giovanni Ganzio'', ''A Deposition from the Cross'', ''The Confidence of Alexander'', a ''Guardian Angel'', a self-portrait, a portrait of the children of Cignaroli, a portrait of

Anton Raphael Mengs Anton Raphael Mengs (22 March 1728 – 29 June 1779) was a German people, German painter, active in Dresden, Rome, and Madrid, who while painting in the Rococo period of the mid-18th century became one of the precursors to Neoclassicism, Neoclas ...

, and a portrait of his father.

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1750 births 1786 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian neoclassical painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub