Italian painter, called Brescianino delle Battaglie. He is one of the three painters with the nickname "Brescianino," and not to be confused with another Francesco Monti (1685-1768), a Bolognese painter of religious subjects. His first teacher was Pietro Ricchi (called il Lucchese) in Venice, then in Rome he studied with Jacques Courtois, a prolific painter of battle scenes. He served as a painter for princes in Genoa, Rome, Venice, Parma, and Naples. In the last period of his career he worked at the Ducal Court in Parma. //