Gamba

The Italian for leg, sometimes used as an abbreviation for Viola da gamba (‘leg viol’, a viol played between the legs). It is also the term for an organ stop with a string-like sound quality.

Italian family of artists. Francesco Gamba (b Turin, 1818; d Turin, 10 May 1887) was a painter and museum director. He trained at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti in Turin. From 1845 to 1855 he travelled, principally in northern Europe. In D?sseldorf he became friends with the painter Andreas Achenbach (1815-1910) and perfected his landscape technique. Gamba painted seascapes such as After the Storm (1862; Turin, Gal. Civ. A. Mod.). In 1869 he became Director of the Regia Pinacoteca (now Galleria Sabauda) of Turin, and from this time he also began to study and research 15th- and 16th-century painters of Piedmont. Francesco's brother Enrico Gamba (b Turin, 3 Jan 1831; d Turin, 19 Oct 1883) was a painter, engraver and stage designer. He studied first at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti in Turin, and, from 1850, at the Stadelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main under Friedrich Overbeck. He travelled in Holland, Belgium and Switzerland. Later he lived in Venice and Rome, and in 1856 he became professor of drawing and life drawing at the Accademia Albertina in Turin. He was one of the principal exponents, in Piedmont, of a genre of painting that was still academic in its form and at the same time romantic and literary in its social and patriotic content. He was principally a history and genre painter. Occasionally he also painted portraits. His Funeral of Titian (1855; Turin, Gal. Civ. A. Mod.) was greatly admired in 1855, and it was acquired in the following year by Victor-Emanuel II, King of Sardinia-Savoy, for the Palazzo Reale in Turin. Gamba also worked in fresco, made engravings and painted designs for backdrops.

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Gamba may refer to:

• Gamba, Gabon, port in Gabon
• Gamba County, county in Tibet
• Gamba, California, former town in California
• Viola da gamba, musical instrument
• Gamba Osaka Japanese football team

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