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Apollo Driving the Chariot of the Rising Sun Print by Luca Cambiaso

Apollo Driving the Chariot of the Rising Sun

The Annunciation Print by Luca Cambiaso

The Annunciation

Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John Print by Luca Cambiaso

Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John

Venus and the Nymphs Lamenting the Death of Adonis Print by Luca Cambiaso

Venus and the Nymphs Lamenting the Death of Adonis

The Holy Family with the Infant Baptist Print by Luca Cambiaso

The Holy Family with the Infant Baptist

The Visitation Print by Luca Cambiaso

The Visitation

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Virgin with the Christ Child in Swaddling Clothes

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Flight of Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius from Troy

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Venus and Adonis

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Virgin and Child

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Virgin and Child with the Young St John the Baptist

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The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian

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The Visitation

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Madonna of the Candle

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Madonna and Child

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Benediction of God the Father

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Christ before Caiaphas

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Self portrait painting his father

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The Deposition

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Saint Jerome

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Altar Design: Madonna in Glory with Sts. Peter, John the Baptist, Francis and Paul, in the pediment: God the Father

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Luca Cambiasi (surname also written Cambiaso or Cangiagio; 18 November 1527 – 6 September 1585) was an Italian painter and draftsman, familiarly known as Lucchetto da Genova. Cambiasi was born at Moneglia, then part of the Republic of Genoa, the son of a painter named Giovanni Cambiasi.

Cambiasi 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, Cambiasi frescoed a Presentation and Marriage of the Virgin in 1569, remainder of chapel by Castello.

The 1911 Britannica states that Cambiasi by his thirties began to decline in skill, though not at once in reputation, owing to the vexations brought upon him by a passion which he conceived for his sister-in-law. His wife having died, and the sister-in-law had taken charge of his house and children, he failed to procure a papal dispensation for marrying her.

In 1583 he 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 Cambiasi became a painter. Other followers from Genoa include Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo, Simone Barabino, Giulio Benso, Battista and Bernardo Castello, Giovanni Battista Paggi, Francesco Spezzini,[1] and Lazzaro Tavarone.


Style and output

Cambiasi 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 Cambiasi 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.

Cambiasi 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.

Cambiasi was a prolific draftsman. 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

Hobbes, James R. (1849). Picture collector's manual adapted to the professional man, and the amateur. T&W Boone, 29 Bond Street; Digitized by Googlebooks. p. 34.

Oxford Art Online: Luca Cambiaso.

References

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.

Cambiasi exhibition
Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Pelican History of Art, ed. Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. Penguin Books Ltd. pp. 600–604.

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