Attributed to LUCA CAMBIASO (Moneglia, Liguria, 1527- El Escorial, Madrid, 1585). "St. Peter, St. Lawrence and St. George". Ink on paper. Presents ancient inscription. Measurements: 35 x 25 cm; 44 x 31 cm (frame). Ink drawing representing St. Peter, St. Lawrence and St. George. The finish of the work indicates that it was probably a study conceived for a larger composition. Considered the most famous Mannerist painter of the Genoese school, Luca Cambiaso was the creator of numerous large-scale fresco decorations of palaces and churches in the city of Moneglia. The masterpiece of the central period of his career is the fresco of the Rape of the Sabine Women on the ceiling of the Villa Imperiale di Terralba, Genoa, painted before 1565. He was summoned to Spain by Philip II in 1583 to work in El Escorial and Madrid, where the most important surviving work is the fresco of the Glory in the vault of the choir of the church of the Monastery of El Escorial. On a formal level, his paintings, and especially his drawings, are characterized by the simplification of the figures to their geometric components, often cubic. Trained with his father, Luca Cambiaso visited Rome around 1547-1550, where he absorbed the knowledge of the great masters of art history, especially Michelangelo, a fact that explains his daring to make theatrical foreshortenings and exaggerated gesticulations. In his mature Genoese work (1550-1560), his style became calmer and more restrained. This was also the period of his collaboration with the Genoese Giovanni Battista Castello (ca. 1509-1569).