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Luca Cambiaso
1537 - 1585
Medium
pen
Dimensions
76; 145
About this artwork
….; from the dealer Olschki, Florence, fl.90, with four drawings, to the museum, with support from the Vom Rath Fonds, 1953
About the Artist
Luca Cambiaso · 1527–1585
Luca Cambiaso (1527–1585) was an Italian painter and draftsman who dominated artistic life in Genoa during the second half of the sixteenth century and became one of the most innovative draftsmen of the Late Renaissance. Born in Moneglia near Genoa, he trained under his father, the painter Giovanni Cambiaso, and demonstrated precocious talent, reportedly completing his first public fresco commissi...