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Paolo Camillo Landriani

Paolo Camillo Landriani

Italian painter

Not to be confused with Paolo Landriani.

Paolo Camillo Landriani (c. 1560–1618) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period, active mainly in Milan. He was known also as il Duchino for his habit of living in finery.[1]

Paolo Camillo Landriani, Miracle of Anna Miskowiki, one of the Quadroni of St. Charles of the Milan Cathedral, 1610
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Biography

He was a pupil of the painter Ottavio Semini from Genoa. His works in Milan include a Nativity for the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio and several paintings in the Cathedral of Milan, including the decorations on the "Nivola", a sort of lift used in the cathedral in a yearly celebration of the "Holy Nail" relic. He also painted for Santa Maria della Passione. He died in Milan.

References

  1. [1]
    Le glorie dell'arte lombarda, by Luigi Malvezzi, page 253.
  • Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.). Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. London: Woodfall & Kinder. p. 81.


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