Giovanni Ambrogio Figino

Giovanni Ambrogio Figino (* 1548 in Milan, † 1608 ) was an Italian painter of the Lombard Mannerism.

Life

Giovanni Ambrogio Figino was born in 1550 the son of a gunsmith in Milan. He received his education at Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo whose theories " Trattato dell'arte della Pittura " were implemented in Figinos Mannerist style. In the seventies or eighties, he studied the artists of antiquity in Rome. Figinos paintings were primarily for ecclesiastical authority, he painted an altarpiece of the " Madonna della Serpe " for the " Chiesa di San Fedele " in Milan, in the Church today " Sant'Antonio Abate ", which of the coloring in the Lombard tradition Leonardo is. The organ in the Cathedral of Milan, he painted wings (after 1590) together with Camillo Procaccini, and Giuseppe Meda with a train through the Red Sea and resurrection of Christ.

For Rudolf II, he painted " Zeus and Io ". The portrait was in the collection Foppas Giacomo Sannazzari and went in 1802 to the " Ospedale Maggiore di Milano " and from there to the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan. From Figino there is also a still life in the temporal anticipation of the flower of this genre.

His person was the mention of contemporaries such as Torquato Tasso, Giambattista Marino and Gherardo Borgogni.

The British consul in Venice by Joseph Smith in the 18th century acquired a collection of drawings, which was possibly compiled by the family Romei from Ferrara. The volume of drawings, detailed studies and copies after engravings is now in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, the other with sonnets and verses, mainly to Figinos honor, in the Manuscript Department of the British Museum. A collection of 162 drawings, compiled in the early 19th century by the Secretary of the Academy of Fine Arts of Milan Giuseppe Bossi, now owns the Accademia in Venice.

Cicerone

" Lomazzo and Figino already belong to the actual Mannerist, the former has value as an art writer, less by his views as by important notes " on Figino as a painter wrote the instructions for enjoyment of works of art in Italy of Jacob Burckhardt mid-nineteenth century nothing, Georg Kaspar Nagler Künstler-Lexicon commented at the time on Figino more reserved, more about the influence of other painters, less about his works.