Francesco Maria Raineri

Francesco Maria Raineri (1676-1758) was an Italian sculptor of the late-Baroque, mainly active in Mantua.

Also called Lo Schivenoglia from the town of his birth. He was a pupil of Giuseppe Bazzani. Among his works, he was known for his paintings of battle scenes, landscapes, and cappricios with historical or mythologic figures. He was named director of the Academy of painters in Mantua in 1752. He is known to have painted a St. Sebastian for the chapel of St. Anna. He painted a San Francesco da Paola for the Oratorio della Beata Vergine della Misericordia, (also called della Disciplina) in Bozzolo.

References

• Coddè, Segretario dell Belle Arti in Mantova, Dottore Pasquale (1837). Aumentate e scritte Dottore Fisico, Luigi Coddè (ed.). Memorie Biografiche, poste in forma di Dizionario die Pittori, Scultori, Architetti, ed Incisori Mantovani. Presso i Fratelli Negretti, Mantua; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on October 16, 2006. pp. page 131-133. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help)