Luca cambiasso biography

Luca Cambiaso .
Luca Cambiaso was an Italian painter and draughtsman and the leading artist in Genoa in the 16th century.
Luca Cambiaso was an Italian painter and draughtsman and the leading artist in Genoa in the 16th century.

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Luca Cambiaso was an Italian Old Masters artist who was born in 1527. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The British Museum have featured Luca Cambiaso's work in the past.Luca Cambiaso's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 89 USD to 1,394,855 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 1,394,855 USD for A 'Sacra Conversazione': the Madonna and Child with Saints Paul and Augustine, a putto reading at their feet, sold at Sotheby's London in 2007. In the past 12 months, their works on paper have averaged 766 USD.Luca Cambiaso has been featured in articles for New City Art, The Magazine Antiques and The New York Times. The most recent article is Getty Acquires 17 Remarkable Drawings written for ArtDependence Magazine in May 2024. The artist died in 1585.

Artist's alternative names: Cangiagio, Luca Cambiaso, Lucchetto da Genova

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Luca Cambiaso

Born in the Republic of Genoa, in Moneglia to a painter, Giovanni Cambiasi, Luca Cambiasi was known as, Cambiaso, also Cangiagio and Lucchetto da Genova. He started painting at a young age with his father, his first works as early as 15 years of age. Then at 17 years old he helped decorate the Palazzo Doria. He worked with the historical painter, Il Bergamasco (1500 – 1579), and assisted him in decorations for the church of San Matteo.

Cambiaso was a passionate and bold designer, styled much after Raphael (1483 – 1520) and Michelangelo (1475 – 1564); mentioned to sometimes to paint with a brush in each hand. He was strongly influenced by the impassioned works of Correggio (1489 – 1534), and was influenced by the Late Renaissance Venetians; sometimes equaled to the Venetian master Tintoretto (1518 – 1594). Though, his drawing style was highly individual, taking on a simplified geometric form, noted as almost cubist in style. Cambiaso is best represented in Genoa, in the church of San Giorgio with his Martyrdom of San Giorgio and in the Santa Maria da Carignano there

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Luca Cambiaso

Italian painter (1527–1585)

Luca Cambiaso (also known as Luca Cambiasi and Luca Cangiagio^[1] (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.^[2] He was familiarly known as Lucchetto da Genova.

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 P