MONTI, Francesco
(b. 1646 Brescia, d. 1703 Parma)
Italian painter, called Brescianino delle Battaglie. He is one of the three painters with the nickname “Brescianino,” and not to be confused with another Francesco Monti (1685-1768), a Bolognese painter of religious subjects. His first teacher was Pietro Ricchi (called il Lucchese) in Venice, then in Rome he studied with Jacques Courtois, a prolific painter of battle scenes.
He served as a painter for princes in Genoa, Rome, Venice, Parma, and Naples. In the last period of his career he worked at the Ducal Court in Parma.
