![Giovanni Lanfranco - Roman Naumaquia [c.1635]](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3915/15339194465_7246d78220_o.jpg)
Giovanni Lanfranco (Parma, January 26, 1582 - Rome, November 30, 1647) was an Italian painter. Lanfranco translated Correggio’s 16th-century style into a Roman Baroque idiom. His painting in the dome of San Andrea della Valle in Rome (1621–25) derives directly from Correggio in its virtuoso use of vigorously posed figures floating in the clouds over the spectator’s head. Lanfranco worked in Naples from 1633/34 to 1646, his best known work there being the dome of the chapel of San Gennaro in the cathedral (1641–46).
[Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid - Oil on canvas, 181 x 362 cm]