Barabino, Giulio Benso, Battista and Bernardo Castello, Giovanni Battista Paggi, Francesco Spezzini, and Lazzaro Tavarone. Style and output Cambiaso had an ardent fancy, and was a bold designer in a Raphaelesque mode. His main influences are said to have been Correggio and the Late Renaissance Venetian school. His extreme facility astonished the Spanish painters. It is said that Philip II, watching one day with pleasure the off-hand zest with which Cambiaso was painting a head of a laughing child, was allowed the further surprise of seeing the laugh changed, by a touch or two upon the lips, into a weeping expression. The artist painted sometimes with a brush in each hand, and with a certainty equalling or transcending that even of Tintoretto. His fresco technique was very spontaneous and he used small drawings to create full-size sketches on the walls without the aid of cartoons. Cambiaso is best represented in Genoa. In the church of San Giorgio is a canvas of the Martyrdom of San Giorgio; Santa Maria da Carignano houses a Pietà, containing his own portrait and (according to tradition) that of his beloved sister-in-law. He painted notable nocturnes, including an Adoration of the Shepherds (1570) and the so-called Madonna of the Candle (1575). The former painting appears inspired by Correggio's Nativity. Cambiaso was a prolific draftsman. In his early drawings Cambiaso showed a preference for bold foreshortenings and exaggerated gestures. In the mid-1560s he began to draw in a simplified, geometric style that may have been inspired by similar works by Albrecht Dürer and other German artists. Notes Sources Luca Cambiaso, la vita e le opere, edited by Bertina Suida Manning and William Suida. Milano: Ceschina, 1957. Luca Cambiaso, 1527-1585, edited by Jonathan Bober. Milano: Silvana Editoriale, 2006. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Sept. 15, 2006-Jan. 14, 2007, and at the Palazzo ducale, Genoa, Mar. 3-July 8, 2007. Mary Newcome, "Luca Cambiaso, Austin and Genoa," review in The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 148, No. 1245 (Dec., 2006), pp. 878–880. Edward J. Olszewski, "Drawings by Luca Cambiaso as a Late Renaissance Model of Invenzione," Cleveland Studies in the History of Art, Vol. 5 (2000), pp. 20–41. Frederick A. Sweet, "Venus and Cupid by Luca Cambiaso," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Jan., 1943), pp. 1–3. External links Cambiaso exhibition at the Blanton Museum CAA