Bono da Ferrara or Bono Ferrarese (active 1441–1461)
• Was an Italian painter of the early-Renaissance period.
• He seems to have been the pupil of both Pisano and Squarcione.
• He was employed by the Dukes of Ferrara to decorate their castles at Migliaro and Belfiore, in 1450 and 1452.
• He also painted a St. Christopher in the chapel of the Eremitani at Padua, and he is said to have assisted in the decorations of the Cathedral of Siena in 1461.
• The National Gallery possesses a St. Jerome in the Desert, by him, and in the Galleries of Dresden and Munich are also paintings assigned to this artist.
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Bono da Ferrara, Saint Jerome in a Landscape, c. 1440
Original, National Gallery of Art in London. Visited in 2018-19.
Bono da Ferrara, Saint Jerome in a Landscape, c. 1440
Bono da Ferrara, Virgin and Child, Late 1450s
Original, Szepmuveszeti, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. Visited in 2019.
Bono da Ferrara, Virgin and Child, Late 1450s
