Carpoforo Tencalla

Carpoforo Tencalla

Carpoforo Tencalla (or Tencala (10 September 1623 - 9 March 1685) was an influential Swiss-Italian Baroque painter of canvases and frescoes. He is little studied and has come only recently to the attention of art critics. He introduced the style of 17th-century Italian painting with its mythological subjects to Central Europe, reviving the art of fresco on large surfaces.Tencalla was born in Bissone, in southern Switzerland. He began his apprenticeship in Lombardy, probably in Milan, Bergamo and Verona, possibly under the master Isodoro Bianchi, related to his mother.

Carpoforo Tencalla

Carpoforo Tencalla

Carpoforo Tencalla

Carpoforo Tencalla

Carpoforo Tencalla

Carpoforo Tencalla

Carpoforo Tencalla

Carpoforo Tencalla

Carpoforo Tencalla

Carpoforo Tencalla

Carpoforo Tencalla