Luca Longhi (14 January 1507 – August 12, 1580) was an Italian painter of the late-

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period, active in and near

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, where he mainly produced religious paintings and portraits.

Biography

It is unclear who his master was. Among his portraits, he painted a portrait of Giovanni Guidiccione, bishop of

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; of Giulio dalla Rovere, Cardinal of

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, who died 1577; as well as

Alessandro Sforza Alessandro Sforza (21 October 1409 – 3 April 1473) was an Italian condottiero and lord of Pesaro, the first of the Pesaro line of the Sforza family. Biography He was born in Cotignola in 1409, an illegitimate son of the famous condotti ...

, Cardinal Legate of Romagna; Cristoforo Boncòmpagni, archbishop of Ravenna; and Giovanni Battista Rossi, Generale del Carmine, who died in Rome in 1577. His works include ''The Marriage of Saint Catherine'' (1529), ''Lady and the Unicorn'', ''Adoration by the Shepherds'', ''Virgin and Child with Saints Sebastian and Rocco'', ''Martyrdom of Saint Ursicinus'' (oil on canvas) and '' Cesare Hercolani''. He trained two of his children, Francesco Longhi (1544–1618) and

Barbara Longhi Barbara Longhi (, ; 21 September 1552 – 23 December 1638) was an Italian painter. She was much admired in her lifetime as a portraitist, although most of her portraits are now lost or unattributed. Her work, such as her many Madonna and Child p ...

(1552–1638). Barbara collaborated with him on several of his later works, including ''Marriage of Canae'' (1580), incorporating portraits of Barbara and Francesco Longhi. Both he and his daughter were among the artists mentioned by

Vasari Giorgio Vasari (, also , ; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance Master, who worked as a painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, who is best known for his work ''The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculpt ...

. Along with his son Francesco, he painted a ''Marriage at Canna'' for the refectory of the convent and the organ doors of the church of the Camaldolesi in Ravenna. In the picture were depicted his daughter Barbara, and his son Francesco, and the Abbot of the Monastery, Don Pietro Bagnolo da Bagnacavallo. He painted a ''Venus'' for Quaranta Aldrovandi of Bologna. The cavaliere Pomponio Spreti had many works among them ''Madonna and child and St John'', which he donated to Cardinal Sforza. He painted an ''Ascension of Christ'' for the Cathedral of Cervia. He died in Ravenna of a catarrhal illness, that spread from Paris throughout Italy. He was buried in San Domenico, Ferrara.Scritti Editi e Postumi di Pietro Giordani
Vincenzo Carrari in morte di Luca Longhi in Ravenna per Francesco Tebaldini 1581; page 265-266.

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* 1507 births 1580 deaths People from Ravenna 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Mannerist painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub