Gian-Francesco de Maineri
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.
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Gian-Francesco de Maineri

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- Gian-Francesco de Maineri is recorded as a citizen of Italy.
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- Gian-Francesco de Maineri is recorded with the occupation painter.
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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.
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His style recalls that of the contemporary Ercole de' Roberti. Lorenzo Costa, another Roberti pupil, completed an altarpiece by Maineri, when the latter left for Mantua in 1498.
The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Notes pour le Rapport sur les progrès de la physiologie / Claude Bernard; manuscrit inédit présenté et commenté par M.D. Grmek; préf. de J. Philosophie et méthodologie scientifiques de Claude Bernard / par Étienne Wolff, Christian Fouchet, Bernardo A. It is also recorded that physiologie et classification: relations historiques / Joseph Schiller; traduit de l'anglais par les Docteurs F. et R.H. Institutional cataloguing adds that gian-Francesco de Maineri is recorded as human. It is also recorded that gian-Francesco de Maineri is recorded with the occupation painter. Recorded with the gender male. The register further records that gian-Francesco de Maineri was born on 1 January 1460. It is also recorded that gian-Francesco de Maineri died on 1 January 1535.
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