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