- Giovanni Bernardo Lama
Giovanni Bernardo Lama (1508 - 1579) was an Italian painter of the
Renaissance period, active mainly inNaples . He was the son of a generally unknown artist, Matteo Lama. He was the apprentice ofGiovanni Antonio D’Amato , thenPolidoro da Caravaggio who had fled Rome after the Sack of 1527. He worked in the style of his friend and contemporaryAndrea di Salerno . A "Madonna and child with saints" is in the sacristy of San Luca Evangelista inPraiano . A "Deposition from the Cross" is found in the Royal Pontifical Basilica of San Giacomo Spagnoli in Naples.Note: He should not be confused with the fellow Neapolitan painter of subsequent generations,
Giovanni Battista Lama (born 1660).References
*cite book | first= Maria|last= Farquhar| year=1855| title= Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters| editor = Ralph Nicholson Wornum | pages= page 80-81| publisher= Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006| id= | url= http://books.google.com/books?q=intitle:Wornum+intitle:principal+intitle:painters | authorlink=
* [http://www.culturacampania.rai.it/site/en-GB/Cultural_Heritage/Churches/Scheda/Main_Works/napoli_chiesa_san_giacomo_spagnoli.html?link=opere&UrlScheda=napoli_chiesa_san_giacomo_spagnoli| San Giacomo Spagnoli Deposition.]
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