Field Marshal Lucio Foppa by Giovanni Ambrogio Figino

Giovanni Ambrogio Figino (1548/1551 – 11 October 1608) was an Italian

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painter from

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Biography

An important representative of the Lombard school of painting, he had been taught by

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. Best known as a draftsman, he was also a skilled portrait painter. Among the few portraits that can be traced back to Figino, the portrait of Field Marshal Lucio Foppa is one of the best known. On January 25, 2001, his ''Portrait of Giovanni Angelo'' was auctioned at Sotheby's for US$ $1,435,750; after a high estimate of US$180,000 The organ shutters for the

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were painted after 1590 by Ambrogio,

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, and Giuseppe Meda, depicting the ''Passage of the Red Sea'' and the ''Ascencion of Christ''. In the Castello Sforcesco there is a painting of his of ''Saint Ambrose expelling the Arians''. A

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painting, a thematic uncommon among Italians of his day, of peaches is attributed to him He also painted in Milan an ''Immaculate conception'' for Sant'Antonio, and a ''Virgin with child, saints, and donors'' now at

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Works

The majority of Figino's works are drawings. These amount to over 430 known drawings.A. Perissa Torrini, ''Disegni del F''., Milano 1987 His known works include the following. * ''ritratto di Angelo Dannona'' * ''ritratto di S. Carlo'', Milano,

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, ''ante'' 1584 * ''ritratto del Maresciallo di campo Lucio Foppa'', Milano, Pinacoteca di Brera, 1585 c. * ''Piatto metallico con pesche e foglie di vite'', Olio su tavola, 21 x 29, 4 cm, Collezione privata * ''Cristo e il fariseo,'' sagrestia del

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* ''Agonia nell'orto'',

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, Milano * ''Giove'', ''Giunone e Io,''

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, 1599 * ''Incoronazione della Vergine,'' ''Ss''. ''Pietro'', ''Paolo'', ''Maria Maddalena e Marta'', ciclo di dipinti per la chiesa di San Fedele, Milano * ''Madonna del serpe'',

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a Milano * ''S''. ''Paolo'' e ''S''. ''Matteo'' chiesa di San Raffaele, Milano * ''Madonna col Bambino e i ss''. ''Giovanni Evangelista e Michele Arcangelo'', pala per la cappella del Collegio dei dottori di Milano, Pinacoteca di Brera * ''S''. ''Ambrogio che sconfigge gli ariani'' per la cappella del Collegio dei mercanti,

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* ''S''. ''Giorgio'', santuario dell'Addolorata di Rho * ''Natività di Cristo, Passaggio degli Ebrei attraverso il mar Rosso, Ascensione'' (Perduta), ante d'organo del

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, eseguite tra il 1590 e il 1595 * ''Natività di Maria,

a Milano'' * ''Incoronazione della Vergine,'' affresco Nella volta del presbiterio di San Vittore al Corpo * ''Fatti della vita di s''. ''Benedetto,'' ''Dio Padre, Angeli in volo, Putti alati e Angeli musici,'' ala sinistra del transetto di San Vittore al Corpo * ''Cristo alla colonna,'' Museo civico di Busto Arsizio File:Giovanni Ambrogio Figino - Portrait of Lucio Foppa - WGA7882.jpg, ''ritratto del Maresciallo di campo Lucio Foppa'' File:Giovanni Ambrogio Figino - Teller mit Pfirsichen.jpg, ''Piatto metallico con pesche e foglie di vite'' File:Giovanni Ambrogio Figino San Giorgio e il drago Santuario dell'Addolorata (Rho) 06.jpg, ''San Giorgio e il drago'' File:Giovanni Ambrogio Figino San Matteo.jpg, ''San Matteo''

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Description
of his best known works.

a drawing by Figino.

* ttp://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/96665 Painters of reality: the legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Figino (see index) 16th-century births 1608 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Milan Renaissance painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub