Ludovico Lana

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ludovico Lana, Erminia and Tancredi, Italian

Ludovico Lana (c. 1597–1646) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Modena, where he died in 1646. He is also known as Lodovico Lana. He was the director of the Accademia Ducale of Modena. He is said to have been born in Codigoro to a Ferrarese merchant, whose family was originally from Brescia. He appears to have trained with Scarsellino in Ferrara. He then spent some time in Bologna, where he may have worked under or learned the style of either Reni or Guercino.

Altarpiece of the Plague

He helped decorate the Ducal Palace of Sassuolo. He painted an altarpiece for the Church of Madonna del Vico in Modena, depicting the Virgin Mary stopping the plague of 1630, which shows the town of Modena in low aerial view below the image of the Madonna della Ghiara. Below the virgin are pleading and dying citizens.^[1]

Sources

Laderchi, Camillo (1856). La pittura ferrarese, memorie. p. 172.
Hobbes, James R. (1849). Picture collector's manual; Dictionary of Painters. T. & W. Boone, 29 Bond Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks (2006) from Oxford library. pp. pages 148–151.

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ludovico Lana.

↑ Baruffaldi, Girolamo. Vite de' pittori e scultori ferraresi 2.

Persondata
Name	Lana, Ludovico
Alternative names	Lana, Lodovico
Short description	Italian painter
Date of birth
Place of birth
Date of death	1646
Place of death	Modena

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.