Tanzio da Varallo may have first trained in his father's sculpture workshop and with his brother, a fresco painter. His dramatic, tense manner combined the elegance of his native Lombard late Mannerism with Caravaggio's realism, a style he discovered while visiting Rome before 1615. Recent discoveries of Tanzio's paintings have lent credence to his early biographer L.A. Costa's reports that he stu
