LOMBARDI, linn-bliedt-. The name of a fam ily of architects and sculptors who emigrated about 1450 from Carona in Lombardy to Venice, where they were engaged in many important works. Three generation; of this family, whose real surname was Solaro, are known to have worked in Votive, but their personal history is obscure, and of two of them..11.mixo LomnAnno, who was the first. to emigrate to Venice. and Motto, one of his sons.little is known beyond their names. To Martino are sometimes ascribed the later portions of the Church of San Zaccaria at Venice. The most distinguished of the Lombardi was Martinis son, PtE•rno (c.1433-1515), who designed the beautiful Church of Santa Maria (lei Miraeoli at Venice (1450), and the imposing Palazzo Vendramin-Calergi (1451), one of the noblest of Venetian palaces, and one of the ear liest in Italy to be designed with engaged col umns in superposed orders. He was architect also of the tomb of Dante at Ravenna (1482); also (in collaboration with others) of the Seuola di San Marco (1485 or 1489), and of the Cathe dral of Cividale di Friuli (1502). of the Pro cnrazie Vecchie (1496-1517), and of the wings of the clock-tower on the Piazza San Marco; be sides other buildings in Treviso, Pavia, and Venice. He appears also to have worked on the court facades of the Doge's palace (1498). As a sculptor he executed, wholly or in part, many of the notable monuments in the churches of Venice. His sons Ayroxto and Tri.uo assisted
him in many of his works, notably in the Scuola di San Marco, the Church of San Salvatore, and the Mocengo tomb in the Church of Saint John and Saint Paul. • Tullio was also engaged in the rebuilding of the Cathedral of Cividale, and with his son SANTO (or Saute), in the Scuola di San Rocco, a work in which the name of a. certain Glum() Lombardo also appears (1517-27). Tullio, like Pietro, was a sculptor as well as architect; he assisted Leopardi in the monument to Andrea Vendramin, and in association with Antonio executed sculptures in the Capella del Santo at Padua (1507). The later years of Antonio's life were spent at Ferrara, where he died in 1516. To Santo is attributed the Palazzo Malipiero. Little or nothing is known of the work of Mom) Lombardo.
The work of the Lombardi occupies an impor tant place in Venetian art. It is highly decora tive, and marked by exuberant fancy combined with delicacy and refinement of detail. Some writers, including Ruskin, use the term Lom bardic to designate the works of the Lombardi and their school. CIROLAMO and ALFONSO Lom bardo were inferior artists not related to the foregoing. Consult: lturckhardt, Der Cicerone (8th ed., Leipzig, 1900) ; Selvatico, archi tettura c sully scultura in Venezia (Venice, 1847) ; and Temanza, rite dci piv eclebri chile/a a scultori vcncziani (Venice, 1762-68).