Lattanzio Gambara (c. 1530 – 18 March 1574) was an Italian painter, active in

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and

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styles. It is likely that Gambara is the same 16th century painter referred to as ''Lattanzio Cremonese'' or ''Lattanzio da Cremona''.

Biography

Born in

Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and '' comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo ...

, Gambara initially apprenticed, aged fifteen, with

Giulio Campi Giulio Campi (1502 – 5 March 1572) was an Italian painter and architect. His brothers Vincenzo Campi and Antonio Campi were also renowned painters. Biography The eldest of a family prominent painters, Campi was born at Cremona. His father Ga ...

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. By 1549 he was working alongside

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, who became his father-in-law. Gambara's work also shows the influence of

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. An altarpiece of S. Maria in Silva dates to 1558. He painted frescoes in the Villa Contarini in

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. Another fresco cycle on the ''History of the Apocalypse'' decorated the Loggia of

, until it was destroyed by bombing in 1944. In his maturity the artist returned to Brescia to work with Romanino in a series of generally lost frescoes for Sant'Eufemia and Saint Lorenzo in Brescia. He painted altarpieces, all but one of them now lost, for the abbey of Saint Benedict in Polirone, and also decorated Palazzo Mayo in Cadignano ( Lama Mocogno, in collaboration with Giulio and

Antonio Campi Antonio Campi (c. 1522 – 1587) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He was born in Cremona. His style merges Lombard with Mannerist styles. In Cremona, his extended family was the foundation of the Cremonese school of painting. Gi ...

). In 1565 he worked briefly in Venice. He painted a ''Nativity'' for the church of ''San Faustino'' in Brescia.Brescia commune homepage
/ref> In 1566, Gambara completed the fresco cycle in the parish church of S. Stefano in

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, with ''Scenes from the life of the saint'' in the inferior part of the apse and ''God the Father, Christ, Virgin and angels'' in the half-dome. In 1567–73, he completed his masterpiece, the frescoes in the nave of the

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, in collaboration with

Bernardino Gatti Bernardino Gatti (c.1495 – 22 February 1576) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in Parma and Cremona. He is also commonly called il Sojaro. He was born in or near Pavia or Cremona. His early apprenticeship is unclear, ...

. During his last years, after the decoration of the drum of the cupola of Santa Maria of the Steccata in

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, Gambara executed various other frescoes for palaces in Brescia and Parma, including a ''Deposition'' (1568) for the church of ''San Pietro al Po'' in

. He died, from falling off a scaffold, while painting the frescoes of the cupola of S. Lorenzo in

. One of his pupils was

Giovita Brescianino Giovita Brescianino (also called ''Giovita da Brescia'' or simply ''Bresciano'' or ''Brescianino'' after his native town) was an Italian painter and a pupil of Lattanzio Gambara. He was active in about the year 1580. He should not be confused with ...

Notes and references

External links

Gambara biography on artcyclopedia.Getty biography.
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