Giovanni Francesco Maineri

Giovanni Francesco Maineri or Gianfrancesco de' Maineri (active 1489–1506) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active in Ferrara.

Putatively born in Parma to a painter Pietro de Maineri. He worked in Ferrara for the ruling Este family. His style recales that of the contemporary Ercole de' Roberti.[1] Lorenzo Costa, another Roberti pupil, completed an altarpiece by Maineri, when the latter left for Mantua in 1498.[2]

St Jerome in Penitence, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon 
Resurrected Christ with Angel. 

References

  1. Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum, curated by Federico Zeri, Elizabeth E. Gardner, for the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), page 30.
  2. Construction the picture: Costa and Maineri., essay by Caroline Campbell in website of National Gallery of Art, London. Painting for altar in refectory of refectory of the Convent of San Francesco in Ferrara.
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