Giovanni Francesco Bembo (active from 1515 to 1543)

• Was an Italian Renaissance painter from Cremona.
• He apprenticed with Boccaccio Boccaccino.
• In 1515, he painted two frescoes: Presentation in the Temple and an Adoration of the Magi for the Duomo of Cremona.
• Other works in Cremona include in San Niccoló, a St. Nicholas with the Virgin and in San Pietro is a Madonna (1524).
• His style recalls Fra Bartolommeo.
• Giovanni Francesco or Gianfrancesco Bembo, was the nephew of Bonifazio Bembo, the son of Giovanni and brother of Lorenzo, all painters.
• Giovanni Francesco is said by Vasari to have worked in Rome for Pope Leo X.
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