Luigi Garzi
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Luigi Garzi (1638 - 1721) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Pistoia, and died in Rome, where he was one of the main pupils of Andrea Sacchi. He is also often referred to as Ludovico Garzi. In 1680 Garzi was appointed Regent of the Congregazione dei Virtuosi al Pantheon, the papal honor society of painters. Garzi joined Rome's guild of painters, Accademia di San Luca in 1670 and became a director in 1682.
He painted a Triumph of St Catherine & saints for the church of Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli in Rome. He painted a St. Silvestro shows Constantine portraits of Saints Peter and Paul for Santa Croce in Gerusalemme. In the early 1680s he contributed to the frescoes on the vault of San Carlo al Corso, where his works included an Allegory of Faith. He also completed a fresco depicting the Glory of the Eternal Father (1686) for the Cybo chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo. He was one of the painters who contributed to the series of mythologic paintings to the Palazzo Buonaccorsi in Macerata with a Venus in the Forge of Vulcan. He also painted for San Silvestro in Capite, Santa Caterina a Formiello, and Chiesa delle Santissima Stimmate di San Francesco.
[edit] References
- Farquhar, Maria (1855). in Ralph Nicholson Wornum: Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006, page 70.
- Museum biography
- Art Encyclopedia entry
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