Carpoforo Tencalla

Carpoforo Tencalla, also Tencala ( born September 10, 1623 Bissone, † March 9, 1685 ) was an Italian -Swiss painter.

Life

The son of an architect was, according to the painter and art historian Joachim von Sandrart, who knew him personally, his education in Milan, Bergamo and Verona. From this period figurative ceiling paintings in the Palazzo of the Marchese Terzi are preserved in Bergamo, further paintings in a chapel in Santa Maria Maggiore and the altarpiece in the chapel of Santa Maria delle Grazie in the Cathedral of Lugano.

1659 Tencalla first detected by Sandrart in Austria when he created the frescoes in the presbytery of the Collegiate Church of Lambach, while Sandrart was responsible for the ceiling frescoes.

On February 5, 1665, he wrote in Bissone a letter to the church leaders of the Madonna di Santa Giacomo Bergamo and agreed to take over the contract for the work there. He then led ceiling paintings above the altar.

1667, he stayed in Vienna and painted a room in the Hofburg, in 1669 he led paintings in the sacristy of the monastery of Heiligenkreuz. Both works have not survived. In 1670 he signed mural mythological scenes in the gallery hall of Schloss Trautenfels. Until 1673 Tencalla, court painter to Empress Eleonore was again active in the Hofburg. In 1676 he created the ceiling paintings of the Vienna Dominican church.

1674 he painted in the service of the Bishop Karl II von Liechtenstein - Kastelkorn the ceiling of the great hall of residence in Olomouc and numerous other illustrations, all were lost in a fire in 1750 and the subsequent reconstruction of the castle. A fire in 1752 destroyed his later paintings created in Castle Kremsier.

On June 17, 1682 Tencalla signed the contract for the execution of frescoes in the choir, dome and two side chapels in the cathedral of Passau. On October 27, 1684 the contract was extended, but died Tencalla before the painting of the side chapels. His son Carlo Antonio Bussi completed this work.