Lorenzo Tancini

He became first a pupil of Giuseppe Gherardi at the Istituto Gazzola of Fine Arts of Piacenza; as a young man move to Rome.

He studied nearly ten years at the Accademia di San Luca under Gaspare Landi.

He moved back to Piacenza by 1830, and was appointed consigliere and professor of the Ducal Academy of Fine Arts of Parma.

He also was commissioned by the Ospizi civili of Cortemaggiore to paint a Resurrection of Christ found in the chapel of the Suffragio.

He painted the death of Pier Luigi Farnese by commission of Count Frissino Prospero of Lodi, and this was sent to the World Exposition of London, where it obtained a wooden medal.