• Biography

    Francesco Maria Raineri, known as “Lo Schivenoglia” (Schivenoglia, Italy, 1676 – Mantua, Italy, 1758)

    Born in Schivenoglia in 1676, Francesco Maria Raineri trained in Mantua in the workshop of Giovanni Canti, but soon developed a personal style characterized by rapid brushstrokes, asymmetrical compositions, and a restless, visionary Rococo aesthetic.

    Nicknamed “Lo Schivenoglia,” he stood out for the variety of his subjects—battle scenes, landscapes, mythological and religious themes—expressed through a language that anticipated the sensibility of Central European artists such as Paul Troger and Franz Anton Maulbertsch.

    In 1753, he was appointed the first director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Mantua.

    His works, now reappraised, are considered among the most original of the Lombard eighteenth century.

    He died in Mantua on February 28, 1758.

     

    Photo UniCredit Group (Sebastiano Pellion di Persano)

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