Salmeggia received his main training with Camillo Procaccini in Milan, where he went on to paint a number of altarpieces. He was initially strongly influenced by Raphael and his pupil, Giulio Romano, and always striving for clarity of composition following the dictates of the Counter-Reformation. He reveals here the influence of Lorenzo Lotto’s more expressive interpretation of holy figures, and the soft shadows found in Leonardo da Vinci’s Milanese pupil, Bernardino Luini.
Salmeggia received his main training with Camillo Procaccini in Milan, where he went on to paint a number of altarpieces. He was initially strongly influenced by Raphael and his pupil, Giulio Romano, and always striving for clarity of composition following the dictates of the Counter-Reformation. He reveals here the influence of Lorenzo Lotto’s more expressive interpretation of holy figures, and the soft shadows found in Leonardo da Vinci’s Milanese pupil, Bernardino Luini.