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Luca Cambiaso (also known as Luca Cambiasi and Luca Cangiagio (being Cangiaxo [kaŋˈdʒaːʒu] the surname in Ligurian); 18 November 1527 – 6 September 1585) was an Italian painter and draughtsman and the leading artist in Genoa in the 16th century. He is considered the founder of the Genoese school who established the local tradition of historical fresco painting through his many decorations of Genoese churches and palaces. He produced a number of poetic night scenes. He was a prolific draughtsman who sometimes reduced figures to geometric (even cubic) forms.[1] He was familiarly known as Lucchetto da Genova.

Madonna of the Candle
Madonna of the Candle

Life


Cambiaso was born in Moneglia, then part of the Republic of Genoa, the son of a painter named Giovanni Cambiaso.

Cambiaso was precocious, and at the age of fifteen he painted, along with his father, some subjects from Ovid's Metamorphoses on the facade of a house in Genoa. In 1544, at the age of seventeen, he was involved in the decoration of the Palazzo Doria, now the Prefettura, perhaps working with Marcantonio Calvi, a painter of his father's generation. He aided in the vault decoration of the church of San Matteo, in collaboration with Giovanni Battista Castello. His Resurrection and Transfiguration altarpieces for San Bartolomeo degli Armeni date from c. 1560. In 1563, he painted a Resurrection for San Giovanni Battista in Montalto Ligure.

This was followed by frescoes for the Villa Imperiale at Genoa-Turalba (also called the Palazzo Imperiali Terralba) with a Rape of the Sabines (c. 1565) and the Palazzo Meridiana (formerly Grimaldi; also in 1565). In the Capella Lercari of the Duomo di San Lorenzo, Cambiaso frescoed a Presentation and Marriage of the Virgin in 1569, remainder of chapel by Castello.

The Visitation
The Visitation

In 1583 Cambiaso accepted an invitation from Philip II to complete for the Escorial a series of frescoes begun by Castello; and the 1911 Encyclopædia states the principal reason for traveling to Spain was that he hoped royal influence would gain favor with the Vatican for his marriage plans, but this failed. In the Escorial he executed a Paradise on the vaulting of the church, with a multitude of figures. For this picture he received 2,000 ducats, probably the largest sum that had, up to that time, ever been given for a single work. His paintings in Spain, hew to strict religious thematic.

His son Orazio Cambiaso became a painter. Other followers from Genoa include Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo, Simone Barabino, Giulio Benso, Battista and Bernardo Castello, Giovanni Battista Paggi, Francesco Spezzini, and Lazzaro Tavarone.[2]


Style and output


Cambiaso had an ardent fancy, and was a bold designer in a Raphaelesque mode. His main influences are said to have been Correggio and the Late Renaissance Venetian school. His extreme facility astonished the Spanish painters. It is said that Philip II, watching one day with pleasure the off-hand zest with which Cambiaso was painting a head of a laughing child, was allowed the further surprise of seeing the laugh changed, by a touch or two upon the lips, into a weeping expression. The artist painted sometimes with a brush in each hand, and with a certainty equalling or transcending that even of Tintoretto. His fresco technique was very spontaneous and he used small drawings to create full-size sketches on the walls without the aid of cartoons.[1]

Cambiaso is best represented in Genoa. In the church of San Giorgio is a canvas of the Martyrdom of San Giorgio; Santa Maria da Carignano houses a Pietà, containing his own portrait and (according to tradition) that of his beloved sister-in-law.

He painted notable nocturnes, including an Adoration of the Shepherds (1570) and the so-called Madonna of the Candle (1575). The former painting appears inspired by Correggio's Nativity.

Cambiaso was a prolific draftsman. In his early drawings Cambiaso showed a preference for bold foreshortenings and exaggerated gestures. In the mid-1560s he began to draw in a simplified, geometric style that may have been inspired by similar works by Albrecht Dürer and other German artists.[1]


Notes


  1. Lauro Magnani. "Cambiaso, Luca." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 14 Mar. 2016
  2. Hobbes, James R. (1849). Picture collector's manual adapted to the professional man, and the amateur. London: T&W Boone. p. 34.

Sources


 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Cambiasi, Luca". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.




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[de] Luca Cambiaso

Luca Cambiaso (* 18. November 1527 in Moneglia; † 6. September 1585 in San Lorenzo de El Escorial) war ein italienischer Maler.
- [en] Luca Cambiaso

[es] Luca Cambiaso

Luca Cambiaso (Moneglia, 18 de octubre de 1527 - El Escorial, 6 de septiembre de 1585)[1][2] fue un pintor del Renacimiento. Realizó la mayor parte de su obra en Génova. Se trasladó a España en 1583.[3] Fue conocido también como Luqueto.[4]

[fr] Luca Cambiaso

Luca Cambiaso (ou Cambiasi, Cangiagio) dit Lucchetto da Genova) (Moneglia, 18 octobre 1527 – San Lorenzo de El Escorial, 6 septembre 1585) est un peintre italien du XVIe siècle se rattachant à l'école génoise.

[it] Luca Cambiaso

Luca Cambiaso (Moneglia, 18 ottobre 1527 – San Lorenzo de El Escorial, 6 settembre 1585) è stato un pittore italiano.

[ru] Камбьязо, Лука

Лука Камбьязо (такжеКамбьязи или Канджаджо (итал. Luca Cambiaso, 1527 (1527), Монелья, Генуя — 1585, Эскориал) — итальянский художник-маньерист.



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