Lattanzio Gambara (ca. 1530–1574)  

• Was an Italian painter, active in Renaissance and Mannerist styles.
• Born in Brescia.
• Gambara initially apprenticed, aged fifteen, with Giulio Campi in Cremona.
• By 1549 he was working alongside Girolamo Romanino, who became his father-in-law.
• An altarpiece of S. Maria in Silva dates to 1558.
• He painted frescoes in the Villa Contarini in Asolo.
• In his maturity the artist returned to Brescia to work with Romanino in a series of generally lost frescoes for Sant'Eufemia and Saint Lorenzo in Brescia.
• In 1565 he worked briefly in Venice.
• He painted a Nativity for the church of San Faustino in Brescia.
• In 1567–73, he completed his masterpiece, the frescoes in the nave of the Cathedral of Parma, in collaboration with Bernardino Gatti. 

• He died, from falling off a scaffold, while painting the frescoes of the cupola of S. Lorenzo in Brescia.

• One of his pupils was Giovita Brescianino.

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