Giovanni Francesco Bembo
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Giovanni Francesco Bembo was an Italian Renaissance painter from Cremona, mainly active from 1515-1543. He apprenticed with Boccaccio Boccaccino. In 1515, he painted two frescoes: Presentation in the Temple and an Adoration of the Magi for the Duomo of Cremona. He painted in 1524, an altarpiece for San Pietro depicting a Madonna with three saints and a donor. In 1530, he painted a Madonna with Saint Stephen and in 1540, a Madonna with Saint John the Baptist and a Bishop(Museo Civico).
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- Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). in Pelican History of Art: Painting in Italy, 1500-1600, p376. ISBN 0-14-056035-1.
