Lattanzio Querena
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Lattanzio Querena (1 November 1768, in Predella in Valle di Scalva – 10 July 1853) was an Italian painter, depicting historical and sacred subjects,[https://books.google.com/books?id=V1YIAQAAMAAJ Della letteratura veneziana: del secolo XIX], by Count Filippo Maria Nani-Mocenigo, page 196. in a mainly Neoclassical style.
Biography
He was born in the province of Bergamo. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Verona, and also studied in Venice under Francesco Maggiotto. He later worked under Francesco Fedeli.
He was very skillful in restoring old masters, and painted altarpieces for many churches in Venice, including a Santa Marina for Santa Maria Formosa; a Repose in Egypt for Santa Maria del Pianto; a St Francis of Assisi and a Sacred Heart for church of Nome di Gesù, Venice; a Deposition for the Santi Giovanni e Paolo; and the ancient mosaic depicting the Final Judgement located at the St. Mark's Basilica. He was the father of painter Luigi Querena. One of his daughters married the genre painter Antonio Rotta (1828–1903). Lattanzio died in Venice.
(Venice) St. Mark's Basilica, lunette of the main portal - The Last Judgment by Lattanzio Querena.jpg|Mosaic of Final Judgement at St. Mark's Basilica
Chiesa del Nome di Gesù - Venice - Francis of Assisi by Lattanzio Querena.jpg|St Francis in Nome di Gesù
Chiesa del Nome di Gesù - Venice - Il Sacro Cuore by Lattanzio Querena.jpg|Sacred Heart in Nome di Gesù
Lattanzio Querena (1768-1853).jpg|Diana and the Nymphs Striking Callisto (1840)
References
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- {{cite book| first=Michael| last=Bryan| year=1889| title=Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical |volume=II L-Z |editor=Walter Armstrong |editor2=Robert Edmund Graves |page=333 | publisher=George Bell and Sons|location=London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K2cCAAAAYAAJ }}
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