\paperw19995 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 Italian painter.\par
The son of an artist, this Italian painter received his training in Milan in the early 1680s where he
practiced religious painting for a brief period. His contacts with Lombard artists played a decisive role in the development of his mature style, which is characterized by strong and dramatic contrasts of light and shade. On the other hand, the rapid bru
shwork that typifies LissandrinoÆs works is derived from his Genoese origin, while the caricatural expressiveness of his figures was taken from the Bamboccianti. By fusing these distinct influences, the artist devised a highly original, decidedly anti-co
urtly, ironic and corrosive style which is perfectly in tune with the rationalist undercurrents of Milanese culture in the first half of the eighteenth century. The frescoes with \i Scenes of Harbor Life\i0 in the Visconti castle of Brignano Gera dÆAdda
, painted in 1716, are among his most important works.
