[or Lanfranc]. Italian artist, born in Parma in 1582. He studied under the Carracci, whose work his earlier pictures resemble strongly. He worked in Rome for the Farnese and Borghese families, and after the death of the Carracci, returned to his native city, whereupon his work took on a more individual style. Among his best-known paintings are St. Andrea Avellino at Rome; fresco paintings on the cupola of St. Andrea della Valle in Rome; on the cupola of the Church of Jesus at Rome; and the Dead Christ at Bologna. He died in Rome in 1647.
