Giovanni Pietro Ligario

Giovanni Pietro Ligario (1686–1748) was an Italian painter and architect of the late-Baroque.

1880's photograph of a portrait by Ligario of Margaretha (1704–1765), wife of Anton de Salis-Soglio (Casa Battista) (1702–1765), Grisons Bundespraesident and Chur Stadrichter, and sister of Jerome, 2nd Count de Salis.[1]

He was born at Sondrio in the Valtelline valley, and after early training there, moved to Rome, where he frequented the studio of Lazzaro Baldi, and afterwards visited Venice. On his return to his native town in 1727, he was employed in painting historical pictures for churches and private collections. He died at Sondrio. He has left a ‘‘St. Benedict’’ in the church of the convent at Sondrio, and a ‘‘Descent of the Holy Spirit’‘ in the church at Morbegno.

His children, Angelo, Cesare, and Vittoria were also painters.

References

  1. Opere Ligariane in Coira by Camillo Bassi, in Zeitschrift für schweizerische Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte, aka Revue suisse d'art et d'archéologie, aka Rivista svizzera d'arte e d'archeologia aka Journal of Swiss archeology and art history, 1939.


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