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Lanzani, Andrea
(b Milan, 1641; d Milan, 30 May 1712). Italian painter. He trained in Milan with Luigi Scaramuccia (Pascoli), and at the Accademia Ambrosiana, under the direction of Antonio Busca, in 1669–70. This academic training, influenced by Guido Reni, is apparent in his Translation of the Body of St Calimero (Milan, Bib. Ambrosiana), which may be dated to 1670, and in the St Peter Walking on the Waves (1670; Milan, S Pietro in Gessate). Lanzani visited Rome in 1675 and in the late 1670s worked at the Certosa di Pavia, where he painted the Holy Women at the Sepulchre and the Resurrection for the first chapel on the right, and paintings for the refectory (Arslan). In 1679 he signed and dated a Death of St Joseph for S Giovanni Battista at Morbegno in Valtellina; there followed St Roch Visiting the Prisoners (1683; Miasino, S Rocco) and in the following year the frescoes and altarpiece in the chapel of S Carlo in the Sanctuary, Rho, and the decoration of the Villa Banfi, Rho. In the mid-1680s Lanzani made a second journey to Rome, and this brought him into contact with the circle of Carlo Maratti and provided him with a new stimulus. The frescoes in the vault of S Cecilia in Como were completed in 1688, and in 1694 he decorated the choir of S Alessandro, Milan. There followed the Last Communion of St Ambrose (Milan, S Ambrogio) and the St Carlo Borromeo in Glory for Milan Cathedral, on whose decoration he is recorded as working in 1696. In 1697 Lanzani moved to Vienna with the quadraturista, Marcantonio Chiarini (1652–1730), where Prince Eugenel of Savoy commissioned them to participate in the decoration of the audience chamber of his palace (now the Finance Ministry). In 1699 he decorated the choir of the sanctuary of the Incoronata in Lodi, but from 1700 to c. 1708 he was again in Vienna, where, in 1703, he executed the ceiling for the great staircase of the Liechtenstein summer palace, some religious works, and frescoes for the castle at Slavkov u Brna (formerly Austerlitz). He returned to Milan in 1708; late works executed there include the Flight into Egypt (1712; Milan, S Giuseppe).
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