FRANCESCO DA RIMINI

Italian painter. He was recorded in Rimini in 133 and had died there in 1348. His only surviving, but undated, works are the now detached frescoes (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna) once in the refectory of San Francesco, Bologna, which are heavily dependent on the Franciscan scenes in the Upper Church of San Francesco, Assisi. Recent dating of the Bolognese frescoes placed them in the early 1320s.

Francesco da Rimini was among the many Riminese painters deeply influenced by the work of Giotto. It was suggested that The Master of the Blessed Clare (named after a panel in the National Gallery, London) is identical with Francesco da Rimini, however it is not accepted universally.