Francesco Montanari (1750 in Lugo, Emilia-Romagna – 1786) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassical period.
He painted a Jacob is brought his son's bloody clothes.
Returning to Lugo, he painted for the Franciscans a canvas depicting The Martyrdom of Saints Crispin and Crispiano and the Four Theologic Virtues.
Among other works, he painted canvases depicting: The Prodigal Son, St Giovanni Ganzio, A Deposition from the Cross, The Confidence of Alexander, a Guardian Angel, a self-portrait, a portrait of the children of Cignaroli, a portrait of Anton Raphael Mengs, and a portrait of his father.
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