One of the most accomplished and strikingly original artists of the Lombard seicento was Tanzio da Varallo, a native of Piedmont. In addition to executing several large fresco commissions for churches in Milan, he produced an impressive number of altarpieces and smaller devotional pictures in a more personalized style. His eclectic approach combined Caravaggio’s trademark naturalism and dramatic use of light and shadow with the eccentric mannerism of Lombard art and the uncompromising naturalism of Piedmontese practice.