The Formative Years in Lombardy and Venice In the quiet province of Bergamo, within the small settlement of Predella in Valle di Scalva, a child was born to a lineage that would soon embrace the brush. Lattanzio Querena grew up with an eye for the light and shadow that defines the Italian landscape, eventually seeking the formal rigors of the Academy of Fine Arts of Verona. It was there that his hands first learned the discipline required for the Neoclassical style he would later inhabit. His thirst for knowledge led him away from the hills of his birth toward the canals of Venice, where he s…