The Shadow of a Monogram In the quiet corridors of the late Renaissance, there lived a painter whose identity remains a mystery, known to history only by the three letters of a monogram: LAM. Though the traces of his life are faint, his presence in the art of the sixteenth century is felt through the precision of his brush. He moved through France during a period of great change, active between the years 1568 and 1574. While some schol…