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Francesco Ferrari (1634–1708) was an Italian painter and architect of the Baroque period active in Ferrara and across Northern Italy and Vienna.Born near Rovigo and moved into Ferrara. He had been instructed in figure painting by a Frenchman and afterwards became professor of architectural and ornamental painting under the Bolognese painter Gabriel Rossi. Ferrari painted The Dispute of S. Cirillo and the Rain granted to the prayer of Elias (in the church of S. Paolo).