Luca Ciamberlano (born circa 1580) was an Italian painter and engraver of the

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

period.

Biography

He was born at

Urbino Urbino ( ; ; Romagnol: ''Urbìn'') is a walled city in the Marche region of Italy, south-west of Pesaro, a World Heritage Site notable for a remarkable historical legacy of independent Renaissance culture, especially under the patronage of ...

. In the early part of his life he applied himself to the study of civil law, in which he had taken a doctor's degree, when he abandoned the study of jurisprudence to devote himself to painting and engraving, particularly the latter. He became the leading graphic artist of his day. From 1599 to 1641 he resided at Rome, where he executed a great number of plates from his own designs, as well as after the works of the most celebrated Italian painters, in the style of

Agostino Carracci Agostino Carracci (or Caracci) (16 August 1557 – 22 March 1602) was an Italian painter, printmaker, tapestry designer, and art teacher. He was, together with his brother, Annibale Carracci, and cousin, Ludovico Carracci, one of the founders of ...

. He codified and engraved Carracci's teaching system in a work published in Rome in 1626 by Pietro Stefanoni, called ''Scuola perfetta per imparare a disegnare tutto il corpo umano''. Ciamberlano collaborated with

Guido Reni Guido Reni (; 4 November 1575 – 18 August 1642) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, although his works showed a classical manner, similar to Simon Vouet, Nicolas Poussin, and Philippe de Champaigne. He painted primarily religious ...

between 1610 and 1612, when he made engravings based on Reni's drawings of the ''Life of St Philip''. He engraved the anatomical drawings of

Pietro da Cortona Pietro da Cortona (; 1 November 1596 or 159716 May 1669) was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman ...

between 1618 and 1620. He created a nine-part series of engravings depicting the ''Passion of Christ'', dated 1621 and probably published by Johannes Eillarts.Zeitler, Kurt, "Luca Ciamberlano's Passion Series for Scipione Borghese", Print Quarterly (September 2014) Volume 31, Issue 3, pp. 269–279 Of his plates, 114 are known, but as many as 331 have been conjectured. They were entirely executed with the graver, which he handled with neatness and intelligence; his drawing of the figure is tolerably correct. He sometimes signed his plates with his name, and sometimes marked them with the cipher LC. Among them are the following: *Thirteen plates of ''Christ and the twelve Apostles''; after

Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael (; or ; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. List of works by Raphael, His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of ...

. *''St. Jerome dead, lying upon a stone''; after the same. (pictured) *''St. Thomas''; after Bassano. *Nine plates of ''Angels carrying the instruments of the Passion''. *''Duke Francesco Maria II of Urbino''. *''Christ on the Mount of Olives''; after A. Casolano. *''Christ appearing to Mary Magdalen''; after

Federigo Barocci Federico Barocci (also written ''Barozzi'')(c. 1535 in Urbino – 1612 in Urbino) was an Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker. His original name was Federico Fiori, and he was nicknamed Il Baroccio. His work was highly esteemed and inf ...

. 1609. *''Christ appearing to St. Theresa''; after Carracci.

References

Attribution: * 1580 births Year of death unknown People from Urbino Italian engravers 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub