Carpoforo Tencalla was a Swiss Italian Baroque painter, born in Bissone, Switzerland, on September 10, 1623 and trained in Lombardy. He introduced seventeenth century Italian painting style, with its mythological subjects, to Central Europe, reviving large scale fresco painting, and produced extensive decorative work in monasteries, palaces and churches across Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Germany during the 1600s. He remained relatively obscure until recently gaining renewed attention from art scholars and historians. He died on March 9, 1685.
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Tencalla was born in Bissone in southern Switzerland
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Carpoforo Tencalla (or Tencala; 10 September 1623 - 9 March 1685) was an influential Swiss-Italian Baroque painter of canvases and frescoes.
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He began in 1655 as a fresco painter under the direction of the Italian architect-engineer Filiberto Lucchese
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Tencalla, Carpoforo (Italian painter, 1623-1685)
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