Luca Cambiaso

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Vanity of earthly love (around 1570)

Luca Cambiaso (born November 18, 1527 in Monéglia , † September 6, 1585 in San Lorenzo de El Escorial ) was an Italian painter .

Life

The son of the painter Giovanni Cambiaso began his first studies with his father, was distinguished from an early age by mechanical skill and the fertility of ideas and later led his talent towards maturity in Rome through diligent study of Raphael and Michelangelo's works.

He devoted himself particularly to studying nature, grace and a pleasing color scheme, whereby Antonio da Correggio seems to have had in mind, and thus formed himself into one of the best painters, whose works seem like a fresh spring in the midst of that mannered time.

The representation of moving scenes was less successful than the expression of calm feelings. The best picture of this direction is the great burial in San Carignano in Genoa, where most of his works are located. Cambiaso, however, fell into a fleeting manner in later years, so that he was even said to have painted with both hands at the same time, and the sadness that overcame him as a result of the refusal of a second marriage on the part of the Pope may lead to a decrease in his artistic forces have contributed.

In 1583 he was called to Spain by Philip II to complete the wall paintings of the Escorial, which were interrupted by Castello's death. But he died in 1585.

Cambiaso's main works include the frescoes in several churches and palaces in Genoa. Outside of Genoa it is little represented; There are also paintings by him mainly in Spain and Naples; the Berlin museum owns the compliant group of a Caritas.

The sketches in which constellations of people are reduced to basic geometric shapes are known from his late work. These are known as drawings in the cubic manner ( la maniera cubica ) because they resemble modern cubist images.

Works (selection)

Panel painting

  • Adoration of the Shepherds, wood, 118 × 135 cm. (Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera.)
  • Adoration of the Magi, wood, 223 × 150 cm. (Turin, Galleria Sabauda.)
  • Resurrection, 1547, wood, 224 × 168 cm. (Taggia, SS. Giacomo e Filippo.)
  • Saints Benedict, Lukas and Johannes d. T., 1562, canvas, 261 × 161
  • Discovery of Callisto's misstep, after 1570, canvas, 146 × 150 cm. (Kassel, Gemäldegalerie.)
  • Venus and Adonis, canvas, 141 × 98 cm. (Rome, Galleria Borghese.)

Wall and ceiling painting

  • around 1545–50, Genoa, Palazzo di Antonio Doria: Hercules fighting the Amazons and Apollo shooting the Greeks in front of Troy
  • around 1550, Genoa, Palazzo Grillo: Mercury and Psyche
  • around 1560, Genoa, Palazzo Spinola Pessagno: The hero in Parnassus
  • around 1560, Genoa, San Matteo, scenes from the life of St. Matthew
  • around 1565, Genoa, Palazzo Grimaldi delle Meridiana: Homecoming of Odysseus
  • around 1565, Genoa, Villa Cattaneo Imperiale: The robbery of the Sabine women
  • around 1572–75, Genoa, Palazzo Lercari-Parodi: The establishment of the Fondaco in Trebizond

literature

  • Bertina Suida Manning, Wilhelm Suida : Luca Cambiaso . Milan 1958. Catalog of the "Mostra di Luca Cambiaso e la sua fortuna", Genoa 1956.
  • L. Collobi-Ragghianti: Luca Cambiaso disegnatore. In: Critica d'Arte , 1954, No. 3.
  • Mario Labò in the catalog of the "Mostra centenaria di Luca Cambiaso", Genoa 1927.
  • Lauro Magnani: Luca Cambiaso. Since Genova all'Escorial. Genoa 1995.
  • Jonathan Bober: Luca Cambiaso 1527-1585. Milan 2006.
  • Ulrike Keuper: Like father, like son? Luca Cambiaso's self-portrait with a portrait of his father. On Genealogy and ingenium in the outgoing Cinquecento. In: Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 40, 2013, pp. 129–148.

Web links

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