Giovanni Francesco Maineri Explained

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 recalls 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]

Notes and References

1. http://cdm16028.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15324coll10/id/187741 Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum
2. http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/research/exhibition-catalogues/building-the-picture/constructing-the-picture/costa-and-maineri-virgin-and-child-with-saints Construction the picture: Costa and Maineri.