Name Francesco Montemezzano | Died 1602, Venice, Italy | |
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Francesco Montemezzano or Monte Mezzano (ca. 1540–after 1602) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period.
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He was born near Verona, and appears to have been a follower, if not a pupil, of Paolo Veronese. He was active both in Venice and the mainland, painting mainly sacred subjects.
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.
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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.
