Francesco Monti (1685 - 14 April 1768), Saint Geminianus Exorcising Devils from the Daughter of the Emperor of Constantinople

53 x 45.5 cm
Oil on canvas
Sale on 18.04.2000, London Sotheby's, lot no. 70

Italian Painter, Monti (1685-1768), studied with the foremost painter in Modena, Sigismondo Caula , for three years, from c. 1700. In 1703 he moved to Bologna and entered the studio of Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole. Monti evolved a distinctive personal style, perhaps directly inspired by the late Mannerist style of such painters as Bartholomeus Spranger and Josef Heintz I, of the court of Rudolf II at Prague. Monti's art contributed to a neo-Mannerist strain in 18th-century Emilian painting.