Francesco Bonsignori
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Francesco Bonsignori (1455-1519) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period.

He was born in Verona, and miscalled by Vasari and others Monsignori. In Verona, he was under the influence or a pupil of Liberale da Verona. In 1487, he went to Mantua, where he was largely patronized by the Marchese Francesco Gonzaga and was influenced by Mantegna. He was an excellent painter of animals.

He excelled in painting animals. In the Brera at Milan is his St. Louis and in the refectory of the church of the Franciscans at Mantua are some perspective views. His last production was The Vision of Christ to the nun Ozanna, dated 1519, and now in the Academy at Mantua.

Of others may be mentioned:

• Several portraits at the Pitti Palace galleries.
• Portrait of a Venetian Senator at the National Gallery, London.
• Christ ascending Calvary at the academy in Mantua.
• Last Supper (1506) San Francesco, Mantua.
• St. Sebastian, Santa Maria de Grazie, Mantua.
• Assumption of the Virgin at San Clemente in Brescia.
• Crucifixion with donors, Verona gallery.
• Madonna, Child and Saints (1488) San Bernardino, Verona.
• Madonna with Saints (1514) San Nazaro, Verona
• Madonna, child and Saints Jerome & Christopher (1484) San Termo, Verona.

He died at Caldiero, near Verona.

Sources

• A Guide to the Paintings of Venice, Karl Karoly, and Frank Tryon Charles, George bell and Sons, London, 1895, page 236.
• Bryan, Michael (1886). in Robert Edmund Graves: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, pages 157-158. 

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