Bonifacio (or Bonifazio), Francesco

Bonifacio (Or Bonifazio), Francesco, a reputable Italian historical painter of Viterbo, was born in 1637, and studied under P. da Cortona. He painted several pictures for the public edifices of that city, among which is The Adulteress before Christ, in the Palazzo Braschi. See Spooner, Biographical History of the Fine Arts, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouvelle Biographia Generale, s.v.