Carpoforo Tencalla

Carpoforo Tencalla (or Tencala) (10 September 1623 - 9 March 1685) was an influential Swiss-Italian Baroque painter of canvases and frescoes.

He introduced 17th-century Italian painting style with its mythological subjects to Central Europe, reviving the art of fresco on large surfaces.

He began his apprenticeship in Lombardy, probably in Milan, Bergamo and Verona, possibly under Isidoro Bianchi, who was related to his mother.

He began in 1655 as a fresco painter under the direction of the Italian architect-engineer Filiberto Lucchese in the Pálffy castle Červený Kameň (now Slovakia).

In 1659 he received a commission from the Benedictine Lambach Abbey in Austria for a number of frescoes in the presbitary of the monastery church.