Francesco Maria Raineri

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

Also called "Lo Schivenoglia" after the town, just outside of the city of Mantua, of his birth. He was a pupil of Giuseppe Bazzani. Among his works, he was known for his paintings of battle scenes, landscapes, and "cappriccios" (vedute of imaginary scenes] ) 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 Santa Anna. He painted a "San Francesco da Paola" for the "Oratorio della Beata Vergine della Misericordia", (also called "della Disciplina") in Bozzolo.

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*cite book | first= Dottore Pasquale|last= Coddè, Segretario dell Belle Arti in Mantova| year=1837| title= Memorie Biografiche, poste in forma di Dizionario die Pittori, Scultori, Architetti, ed Incisori Mantovani| editor = Aumentate e scritte Dottore Fisico, Luigi Coddè| pages= page 131-133| publisher= Presso i Fratelli Negretti, Mantua; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on October 16, 2006| id= | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=0BAGAAAAQAAJ&dq=Pasquale+Codd%C3%A8| authorlink=