Saturday, March 21, 2015

Lattanzio Gambara

Sampson Destroying the Temple
c. 1550

St. Roch Interceding with Christ for Plague Sufferers
c. 1567-73

Decorative Scheme for a Ceiling
c. 1565-70

Two Prophets in Clouds
c. 1567-71

Lattanzio Gambara, son of a tailor, was born in 1530 in the north Italian town of Brescia. He became a busy professional painter of high seriousness and limited ability. The majority of his energies were devoted to decorative frescoes on the domes and ceilings of provincial palaces and churches.

Allegory
c. 1560

Apollo
c. 1560

Diana
c. 1560

Mercury
c. 1560

Neptune & Caenis
c. 1560

Wedding of Pirithöus & Hippodamia (detail)
c. 1560

Wedding of Pirithöus & Hippodamia (detail)
c. 1560

Lattanzio Gambara died, hard at work, in his early forties. In 1574 he fell from scaffolding inside a church in his native town of Brescia.