Luca Antonio Colomba

Luca Antonio Colomba ( Luca Antonio Colombo) ( born November 19, 1674 Arogno, † December 22, 1737 ) was a Swiss painter.

Life

The son of Giovanni Battista Colomba was from 1715 to 1717 court painter to Duke Eberhard Ludwig von Württemberg in Ludwigsburg, where he painted frescoes in the Ludwigsburg Palace. He also worked in Frankfurt for the Palais Thurn und Taxis and for the decoration of the ceiling painting of the Cathedral of the German court to Heilbronn ( 1721).

Works

He worked for a time in the service of Prince Eugene of Savoy in Vienna, Pest and Prague, then came to Württemberg, where he spent 24 years working for the Duke Eberhard. Of his works in Württemberg, there were the following:

  • Sacred Architecture: 1721 ceiling paintings in the German house church in Heilbronn: Since the Minster of the German court to Heilbronn, formerly not only Mary's Church, but also a Holy Cross Church of the German Order of Knights had been there for each of the two dome in the cathedral, a group of frescoes. A group dedicated to the veneration of Mary. The group consisted of a large circular central image, with the theme of the Assumption of Mary, and of the following four medallion images that surrounded the center image: Annunciation with the inscription: ecce ancilla Domini ( Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord)
  • The birth of Christ with the words: Gloria in excelsis Deo ( Glory to God in the highest )
  • Christ in the temple with the inscription: quaeretis me et non invenietis ( ye shall seek me, but did not find )
  • St.. Spirit that floats down to Mary with the words: sapientia aedificavit sibi domum ( wisdom a house is built )
  • Moses in front of the queue at the bar with the words: Non est in alio salus ( there is salvation in no other )
  • David and Goliath with the inscription: Omnis armatura Fortium ( The whole military weapons of the mighty )
  • Cross with 5 wounds with the words: Pacificans by sanguinem crucis ( he made ​​peace through the blood of his cross)
  • St. Helena is the cross with the inscription: Causa salutatis nostrae (cause of our salvation )
  • Residenz Ludwigsburg: 1710/1712 frescoes: Württemberg homage to the emperor, Apollo with the Muses, titanium camber, cupids, Puttenbacchanal.
  • In the Biebrich Palace in Wiesbaden various frescoes.
  • In the summer palace to Favorite Mainz, still he has worked for the Prince of Schwarzenberg and Lichtenstein.
  • 1735-1737 he was in Frankfurt at the Palais Thurn und Taxis employed: 1736 Mount Olympus

In his home town of Colomba has frescoes painted in the church and in the neighboring church of Val Mara.

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