Giovanni Ambrogio Figino

Giovanni Ambrogio Figino (1548/1551 - October 11, 1608) was an Italian Renaissance painter from Milan. An important representative of the Lombard school of painting, he had been taught by Giovanni 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 Lucio Foppa 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 [http://www.thecityreview.com/w01soldm.html] .

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" [SJ Freedberg p598] . A still life painting, a thematic uncommon among Italians of his day, of peaches is attributed to him [ [http://www.wga.hu/html/f/figino/peaches.html| Peaches] ] He also painted in Milan an "Immaculate conception" for Sant'Antonio, and a "Virgin with child, saints, and donors" now at Brera gallery.

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*cite book | first= Maria|last= Farquhar| year=1855| title= Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters| editor = Ralph Nicholson Wornum | pages= page 61| 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=

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* [http://www.artnet.com/library/02/0282/T028213.asp Description] of his best known works.
* [http://www.flaviaormond.com/figino.html "The Annunciation"] , a drawing by Figino.