Giuseppe Meda, originally Giuseppe Lomazzo (c. 1534–1599) was an Italian painter, architect and
hydraulics
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engineer.
Born in
Milan
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, he apprenticed as painter under
Bernardino Campi. He also studied as architect and engineer, and planned a never realized though interesting project to make navigable the
Adda River
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from
Cornate and
Paderno.
As a painter he was an exponent of the late Lombard
Mannerism, with influences by
Michelangelo,
Leonardo and the Milanese
Gaudenzio Ferrari
Gaudenzio Ferrari (c. 1471 – 11 January 1546) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the Renaissance.
Biography
Gaudenzio was born to Franchino Ferrari at Valduggia in the Valsesia in the Duchy of Milan. Valduggia is now in the Province of V ...
. His works include the frescoes in the
Cathedral of Monza, in collaboration with
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (; also spelled ''Arcimboldi'') (1526 or 1527 – 11 July 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books.
These wo ...
, and the decoration of the organ in the
Duomo of Milan
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.
As an architect he often completed works begun by
Pellegrino Tibaldi
Pellegrino Tibaldi (Valsolda, 1527–Milan, 1596), also known as Pellegrino di Tibaldo de Pellegrini, was an Italian mannerist architect, sculptor, and mural painter.
Biography
Tibaldi was born in Puria di Valsolda, then part of the duchy of ...
, such as the Church of St. Sebastian and
Lazzaretto Chapel in Milan. He also provided drawing for the
Escorial
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. He also started a project for the
Trivulzio
The House of Trivulzio is the name of an old Italian noble family, most closely associated with Milan, whose members were prominent politicians, military men and various clergymen.
History
The noble and ancient Trivulzio family was one of the g ...
family chapels at
San Stefano in Brolo and the reconstruction of S. Lorenzo.
Further reading
* G. P. Lomazzo, ''Trattato dell’arte della pittura'', Milan (1584), Florence (1974)
* G. P. Lomazzo, ''Idea del Tempio della pittura'', Milan (1590), Florence (1973)
* A. Lamo, ''Discorso di Alessandro Lamo intorno alla scoltura e pittura, dove ragiona della vita ed opere in molti luoghi ed a diversi principi e personaggi fatte fatte dall’eccellentissimo e nobile M. Bernardino Campo pittore cremonese'', Crémone (1584), published in an appendix by G. B. Zaist, ''Notizie de' pittori scultori ed architetti cremonesi'', Crémone (1774) vol. I, Bergame (1976)
* C. Baroni, ''L’architettura a Milano dal Bramante al Richini'', Milan (1941)
* C. Baroni, Appunti d’archivio su Giuseppe Meda, “Rivista d’arte”, S. II, 5 (1933)
* L. Grassi, ''Meda, Giuseppe, in Province del barocco e del rococò in Lombardia''. proposed as a biographical dictionary, Milan (1964)
* C. Baroni, ''Documenti per la storia dell’architettura a Milano tra Rinascimento e Barocco'', II, Rome (1968)
* J. Turnure, ''The organ shutters of Milan Cathedral, in Il duomo di Milano''. Atti del convegno internazionale, I, Milan (1968)
* A. Rovetta, ''Via Torino. Tempio Civico di S. Sebastiano, in Milano ritrovata: l’asse via Torino'', exposition catalog, Milan (1988)
* F. Ricardi, ''Le ante d’organo del Duomo di Milano'', in “Archivio Storico Lombardo” (Lombardic Historic Archives), S. V, CXIV (1988)
* R. S. Miller, ''Gli affreschi cinquecenteschi: Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Giuseppe Meda e Giovan Battista della Rovere detto il Fiammenghino, in Monza. Il Duomo nella storia e nell’arte'', Milan (1989)
* R. S. Miller, ''Note su Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Giuseppe Meda, Giovan Battista Della Rovere detto il Fiammenghino ed altri pittori milamesi'', in ''Studi monzesi'', 5 (1989)
* F. Frangi, Meda, Giuseppe, in ''Pittura in Brianza e in Valsassina dall’Alto Medioevo al Neoclassicismo'', Milan (1993)
* D. Antonini, ''San Sebastiano: un’architettura di Pellegrino Tibaldi nella Milano borromaica'', in''Annali di architettura'', 10–11, (1998-1999)
* F. Repishti, ''Disegni et modelli et parer de Giuseppe Meda, Vincenzo Seregni et Pellegrino Tibaldi'' for l’Escorial (1572), in ''Arte lombarda'' no. 128 (000)
* L. Giacomini, ''Tre palazzi privati e l’architetto Pellegrino Pellegrini'', with ''Arte Lombarda'', CXXXVII (2003)
External links
1530s births
1599 deaths
Engineers from Milan
16th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Milan
16th-century Italian architects
Architects from Milan
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