Giovanni Francesco Bembo Giovanni Francesco Bembo (b. ca. 1480, Cremona, d. ca. 1543) was an Italian Renaissance painter from Cremona, primarily active from 1515 to 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 an altarpiece for San Pietro depicting a Madonna with three saints and a donor in 1524. In 1530, he painted a Madonna with Saint Stephen and in 1540, a Madonna with St. John the Baptist and a Bishop now in the Museo Civico. He is supposed to have visited Rom…