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Bono da Ferrara or Bono Ferrarese (* after 1420, probably Ferrara, † after 1461) was an Italian painter who worked in Ferrara, Padua and Siena around the middle of the 15th century. He was initially a student of Pisanello in the 1430s, whom he probably assisted with his St. George's mural of Sant'Anastasia in Verona. Due to his peculiar style of high contrast, emphasizing contour and shadow, a collection of about 70 drawings can be attributed to him, which have been preserved in Pisanello's pattern books. His style is also evident in painting, in his only signed panel painting of St. Jerome in a Landscape in London (around 1440). Later he worked with Andrea Mantegna in Padua, where the fresco of St. Christopher (1451) in the Ovetari Chapel is the second and last painting signed by him. His works can be assigned to the Early Renaissance, but also exhibit late Gothic features.