Cremonese painter Giulio Campi discovered Lattanzio Gambara, a tailor's son, in 1545. Campi took him to Cremona as his pupil and taught him the then-fashionable Lombard and Emilian Mannerist style. Four years later Gambara returned to Brescia, where he studied under Brescia's most important painter, with whom he later collaborated regularly and whose daughter he married in 1556. A prolific fresco
