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Tavarone, Lazzaro
(b Genoa, c. 1556; d Genoa, 1641). Italian painter. He studied with Luca Cambiaso, probably from the late 1560s, and accompanied him to Spain in 1583, when Cambiaso accepted an invitation to work for Philip II. Nothing is known of his work under Cambiaso either in Genoa or in Spain, but he is documented working after Cambiaso’s death (1584) with Fabrizio Castello (i) and Nicolás Granello in Spain. He returned to Genoa in 1591, and the result of his Spanish experience can be seen in the highly detailed, monogrammed frescoes in the Villa Doria in Pegli, which have a crisp angularity, distinguishing them from the work of his fellow artists on the project. Among his earliest paintings in Genoa are St James Saving an Innocent from the Flames (1600), one of a series of four scenes from the Life of St James (Genoa, oratory of S Giacomo delle Fucine), and an altarpiece of 1605, the Martyrdom of St Vincent (Genoa, S Maria della Consolazione). There followed façade frescoes (1606–8) on the Palazzo S Giorgio and vault decoration (1611) in the Oratory of the Virgin, Genoa, both of which are now known only through photographs. In 1612 he painted vault frescoes, showing scenes from the Life of the Virgin, in S Maria delle Vigne, Genoa.
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