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 LAMA— LANFRANCO. 81 position from the Cross : San Giacomo de' Spagnaoli, the Deposition from the Gross : San Lorenzo, the Stoning of Stephen. ( Dominici. ) LAMBERTI, Bonaventura, b. at Carpi ahout 1651—52, d. at Borne, Dec. 19, 1721. Roman School. Scholar of Carlo Cignani, whose manner he imi- tated, and he is numhered hy Mengs among the most successful of the fol- lowers of that painter. His principal work at Rome is San Francesco di Paola,in Santo Spirito de' Napolitani ; and there are many in the Casa GahrielK (Lami.) LAMBERTINI, Michele di Mat- TEO, painted 1443-69. Bolognese SchooL The scholar of Lippo Dal- masio. He was much praised hy Alhani, and seems to have painted with great softness and delicacy for the period in which he lived, and must he accounted among the hest painters of his time. Ln the gallery of Bologna is a Pieta hy Michele, painted in 1468. {McUvasia.) LANA, LoDOViGO, b. 1597, d, at Modena, 1646. Lomhard School. He studied at Ferrara, imder Ippolito Scar- sellini: hut followed the manner of Onercino, and settled in Modena. His heads of old men have much dignity. He established an academy at Modena. In the churcht of the Madonna del Voto, in that city, are the Crucifixion, and a picture of the Plague, at Modena, by Lana. He also etched a few plates. {Lanzi.) LANDRIANI, Paolo Cahillo, called II Duchino, b. abdut 1560, d. at Milan, about 1618. Milanese School. The scho- lar of Ottavio Semini. He is noticed by Lomazzo as one of the cleverest young men of his time. The churches at Milan contain some of his altar-pieces : In Sant' Ambrogio is the Nativity. (^Lonzi,) LANFRANCO, Giovanni, Cav., 6. at Parma, 1581, d, at Rome, November 29, 1647. Bolognese School. He was the scholar of the Carracci, and an imitator or emulator of the style deve- loped in the cupolas of Correggio. Foreshortening became a principal pur- suit and a passion with Lanfranco, and he belongs thoroughly to the school of the Macchinisti. His first great lessons were with Annibale Carracci, in the Famese Palace at Rome. Some years afterwards he became himself one of the principal fresco-painters of Rome, especially during the pontificate of Paul v., when he executed vast frescoes in Sant' Andrea Delia Valle, and other Roman churches. Lanfranco was the special rival of Domenichino at Rome and at Naples. The cupola of Sant' Andrea is one of the triumphs of Italian fresco-painting. Another of Lanfran- co's great Roman works is the tribune of San Paolo k Catinari: he died on the day that these frescoes were unco- vered. His works are also extensive and numerous out of Rome. He had prodigious power as a • fresco-painter, but even his greatest works came more strictly under the category of the orna- mental than any other class : he aimed at a pleasing, and, perhaps, imposing, general efiect, and succeeded; and to render such colossal figures as those of the cupola of Sant' Andrea, both pleas- ing and e£fective from below, necessarily demands profound judgment and skill, both of execution and distribution, while the ordinary quaUties of the painter are utterly without avail. Lanfranco has executed some good oil pictures, but they are not numerous : he also etched a few plates. Works. Rome, Sant* Andrea della Valle, cupola, the Assumption of the Virgin ; San Paolo a Catinari, tribune. Florence, Uffi^, tribune, St. Peter. Naples, San Gennaro, the Capella di Tesoro, cupola; Gesii cupola; SS. Apostoli; Certosa di San Martino.