Luca Antonio Colomba

Luca Antonio Colomba (1674–1737) was a Swiss Baroque painter born at Arogno.

His style was distinguished for its happy compositions and its careful design, as also for the delicate and tender colours.

He was the son of Giovanni Battista Colomba of Arogno in the Swiss-Italian region of Ticino.

There he works alongside Donato Giuseppe Frisoni, architect of castle Ludwigsburg and general superintendent of the Building for the Duchy.

His nephew was the painter and scenic designer Giovanni Battista Innocenzo Colombo.

Allegorical portrait of Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg painted by cherubs: mural painting from 1711 in the Ludwigsburg Palace .