Luca Cambiaso
Luca Cambiaso (also known as Luca Cambiasi and Luca Cangiagio
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
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
In 1583 Cambiaso accepted an invitation from
His son
Style and output
Cambiaso had an ardent fancy, and was a bold designer in a
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
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.[2]
Notes
- ^ "Collections Online | British Museum". www.britishmuseum.org. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
- ^ a b c Lauro Magnani. "Cambiaso, Luca." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 14 Mar. 2016
- ^ Hobbes, James R. (1849). Picture collector's manual adapted to the professional man, and the amateur. London: T&W Boone. p. 34.
Sources
public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Cambiasi, Luca". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the- Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Pelican History of Art (ed.). Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. Penguin Books Ltd. pp. 600–604.
- Luca Cambiaso, la vita e le opere, edited by Bertina Suida Manning and William Suida. Milano: Ceschina, 1957.
- Luca Cambiaso, 1527-1585, edited by Jonathan Bober. Milano: Silvana Editoriale, 2006. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Sept. 15, 2006-Jan. 14, 2007, and at the Palazzo ducale, Genoa, Mar. 3-July 8, 2007.
- Mary Newcome, "Luca Cambiaso, Austin and Genoa," review in The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 148, No. 1245 (Dec., 2006), pp. 878–880.
- Edward J. Olszewski, "Drawings by Luca Cambiaso as a Late Renaissance Model of Invenzione," Cleveland Studies in the History of Art, Vol. 5 (2000), pp. 20–41.
- Frederick A. Sweet, "Venus and Cupid by Luca Cambiaso," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Jan., 1943), pp. 1–3.
External links
- Cambiaso exhibition at the Blanton Museum Archived 2010-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
- CAA review of the exhibition at the Blanton Mustem
- Cambiaso exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa
- Media related to Luca Cambiaso at Wikimedia Commons
- Genoa : drawings and prints, 1530-1800, fully digitized text from The Metropolitan Museum of Art libraries (see index)
- Scholarly articles about the Circle of Luca Cambiaso both in web and PDF @ the Spanish Old Masters Gallery