Iconografie lepantine nel territorio bresciano

In the second half of the sixteenth century, the Tridentine deliberations and the magisterium of Domenico Bollani influenced the religious, cultural and artistic life of Brescia and its territory, on the border between the Serenissima and the Duchy of Milan. In this area, the celebrations following the Lepantine victory over the Ottoman fleet in 1571 amplified the myth also by using a new way of understanding sacred painting which materialized in some significant depictions of the battle, by Pius V Ghislieri, the Virgin Mary, patron saints and the devotional practice of the rosary. Promoters of this innovative language between Venetian and local late-mannerism, already open to the Baroque, were Francesco Giugno and Antonio and Bernardino Gandino. Even the work of Grazio Cossali in the church of Santa Croce in Bosco Marengo, while showing greater attention to the contents of post-Tridentine devotion and re-proposing the bright color of the lagoon specificities, became a model for subsequent Brescia paintings.