Background
He was the son of Giovanni Battista Colomba of Arogno in the Swiss-Italian region of Ticino.
He was the son of Giovanni Battista Colomba of Arogno in the Swiss-Italian region of Ticino.
His style was distinguished for its happy compositions and its careful design, as also for the delicate and tender colours. He painted in oil and fresco. He first trained with his father, as well as influenced by painters of his circle, as Carlo Antonio Bussi, Santino Bussi, and Carpoforo Tencalla.
Colomba"s brother also married Anna Maria"s sister.
Foreign some years, he works in the court of Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg. There he works alongside Donato Giuseppe Frisoni, architect of castle Ludwigsburg and general superintendent of the Building for the Duchy.
Foreign five years he works at painting the ceiling decorations for the court chapel of Ludwigsburg with Carlo Innocenzo Carloni, Diego Francesco Carloni, and the stucco artist Donato Riccardo Retti.
