Giuseppe Meda (c. 1534 - 1599) was an Italian painter, architect and hydraulics engineer. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest
Born in Milan, he apprenticed as painter under Bernardino Campi. Milan (Milano Milan (listen) is one of the largest cities in Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. Bernardino Campi (1522 - 1591 was an Italian Renaissance painter from Reggio Emilia, who worked in Cremona. He also studied as architect and engineer, and planned a never realized though interesting project to make navigable the Adda River from Cornate and Paderno. The Adda (Latin Abdua, or Addua) is a river in North Italy, a tributary of the Po. Cornate d'Adda is a Comune (municipality in the Province of Milan in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 30 km northeast of Paderno might be in Italy: Paderno Dugnano, in the Province of Milano Paderno d'Adda, in the Province of Lecco
As a painter he was an exponent of the late Lombard Mannerism, with influences by Michelangelo, Leonardo and the Milanese Gaudenzio Ferrari. Mannerism is a period of European art which emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni Two biographies were published of him during his lifetime One of them by Giorgio Vasari, proposed that he was the pinnacle of all Gaudenzio Ferrari (c 1471 &ndash January 11, 1546) was a Northern Italian painter and sculptor of the Renaissance His works include the frescoes in the Cathedral of Monza, in collaboration with Giuseppe Arcimboldi, and the decoration of the organ in the Duomo of Milan. Monza Cathedral (Italian Duomo di Monza) is the main religious building of Monza, near Milan, in northern Italy. Giuseppe Arcimboldo (also spelled Arcimboldi; 1527 - July 11 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative Milan Cathedral (Italian Duomo di Milano; Milanese: Domm de Milan) is the Cathedral
As an architect he often completed works begun by Pellegrino Tibaldi, such as the Church of St. Pellegrino Tibaldi, also known as Pellegrino di Tibaldo de Pellegrini ( Valsolda, 1527 &ndash Milan, 1596 was an Italian mannerist Sebastian and Lazzaretto Chapel in Milan. He also provided drawing for the Escorial. El Escorial is one of the Spanish royal sites and functions as a monastery royal palace museum and school