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| Lattanzio Gambara Naval Battle (study for fresco) ca. 1550-55 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| attributed to Lattanzio Gambara Adoration of the Magi ca. 1560-70 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Lattanzio Gambara Samson destroying the Temple ca. 1550-60 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Lattanzio Gambara Three Kings on their way to Bethlehem ca. 1550-60 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Lattanzio Gambara Ceiling Design with Mars driving his Chariot (study for fresco) ca. 1565-69 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Lattanzio Gambara Ceiling Design with the Virgin in Glory (study for fresco) ca. 1565-70 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
"Cremonese painter Giulio Campi discovered Lattanzio Gambara, a tailor's son, in 1545. Campi took him to Cremona as his pupil and taught him the then-fashionable Lombard and Emilian Mannerist style. Four years later Gambara returned to Brescia, where he studied under Brescia's most important painter, Girolamo Romanino, with whom he later collaborated regularly and whose daughter he married in 1556. A prolific fresco painter and draftsman, Gambara became Brescia's leading artist after his teacher's death in 1560. He lived in Parma from 1567 to 1573, where he worked on one of his most significant frescoes, the nave arcade and internal façade of Parma cathedral, in collaboration with Cremonese painter Bernardino Gatti. Gambara returned to Brescia to begin frescoes for a church there. He died soon after, due to a fall from scaffolding in the church vault. Gambara's style combined decorative elegance with complex foreshortening and monumental qualities. In time, he exchanged many of the energetic aspects of his Mannerism for a more classicizing orientation."
– from curator's notes at the Getty Museum
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| Lattanzio Gambara Jael and Sisera before 1574 drawing British Museum |
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| attributed to Lattanzio Gambara Salome with the Head of John the Baptist before 1574 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| attributed to Lattanzio Gambara Design for Wall Decoration with Episodes from the Life of Christ (study for fresco) before 1574 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Lattanzio Gambara Holy Family with St Roch before 1574 drawing British Museum |
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| Lattanzio Gambara Study for Ecce Homo before 1574 drawing Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Lattanzio Gambara Study for Ecce Homo before 1574 drawing Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| attributed to Lattanzio Gambara Project for a Façade Decoration before 1574 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| attributed to Lattanzio Gambara Architectural Studies before 1574 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| attributed to Lattanzio Gambara Design for Pitcher in the form of a Lion before 1574 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |