Francesco Montemezzano (1540–after 1602)

• Was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period.
• 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 Nicolò dei Mendicoli in the Venetian district of Dorsoduro.
• 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.
• 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 Church, Tunstall, Lancashire was verified as being by the artist.
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