Giovanni Ambrogio Figino

Portrait of Field Marshal , ca. 1590.

Giovanni Ambrogio Figino (1548/1551 – 11 October 1608) was an Italian Renaissance painter from Milan.

Biography[]

An important representative of the of painting, he had been taught by Gian Paolo Lomazzo. Best known as a draftsman, he was also a skilled portrait painter. Among the few portraits that can be traced back to Figino, the portrait of Field Marshal is one of the best known.

On January 25, 2001, his Portrait of Giovanni Angelo was auctioned at Sotheby's for US$ $1,435,750; after a high estimate of US$180,000 ^[1]

The organ shutters for the Cathedral of Milan were painted after 1590 by Ambrogio, Camillo Procaccini, and Giuseppe Meda, depicting the Passage of the Red Sea and the Ascencion of Christ. In the Castello Sforcesco there is a painting of his of Saint Ambrose expelling the Arians.^[2] A still life painting, a thematic uncommon among Italians of his day, of peaches is attributed to him^[3] He also painted in Milan an Immaculate conception for Sant'Antonio, and a Virgin with child, saints, and donors now at Brera Gallery.

Works[]

The majority of Figino's works are drawings. These amount to over 430 known drawings.^[4] His known works include the following.

• ritratto di Angelo Dannona
• ritratto di S. Carlo, Milano, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, ante 1584
• ritratto del Maresciallo di campo Lucio Foppa, Milano, Pinacoteca di Brera, 1585 c.
• Piatto metallico con pesche e foglie di vite, Olio su tavola, 21 x 29, 4 cm, Collezione privata
• Cristo e il fariseo, sagrestia del duomo di Monza
• Agonia nell'orto, Santa Maria della Passione, Milano
• Giove, Giunone e Io, , firmato e datato 1599
• Incoronazione della Vergine, Ss. Pietro, Paolo, Maria Maddalena e Marta, ciclo di dipinti per la , Milano
• Madonna del serpe, a Milano
• S. Paolo e S. Matteo , Milano
• Madonna col Bambino e i ss. Giovanni Evangelista e Michele Arcangelo, pala per la cappella del Collegio dei dottori di Milano, Pinacoteca di Brera
• S. Ambrogio che sconfigge gli ariani per la cappella del Collegio dei mercanti, Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco
• S. Giorgio, di Rho
• Natività di Cristo, Passaggio degli Ebrei attraverso il mar Rosso, Ascensione (Perduta), ante d'organo del duomo di Milano, eseguite tra il 1590 e il 1595
• Natività di Maria, a Milano
• Incoronazione della Vergine, affresco Nella volta del presbiterio di
• Fatti della vita di s. Benedetto, Dio Padre, Angeli in volo, Putti alati e Angeli musici, ala sinistra del transetto di San Vittore al Corpo
• Cristo alla colonna, Museo civico di Busto Arsizio

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  ritratto del Maresciallo di campo Lucio Foppa

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  Piatto metallico con pesche e foglie di vite

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  San Giorgio e il drago

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  San Matteo

Notes[]

References[]

• Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Pelican History of Art (ed.). Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. Penguin Books.
• Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.). Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006. p. 61.

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External links[]

• Description of his best known works.
• The Annunciation, a drawing by Figino.
• Brief bio of Figino from Web Gallery of Art
• Painters of reality: the legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Figino (see index)

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