Ludovico Trasi (1634–February 20, 1694) was an Italian painter of the

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

period, born and active in

Ascoli Piceno Ascoli Piceno (; la, Asculum; dialetto ascolano: Ascule) is a town and ''comune'' in the Marche region of Italy, capital of the province of the same name. Its population is around 46,000 but the urban area of the city has more than 93,000. Geo ...

. Trasi was born to a little known painter, Antonio Trasi, who sent his son to study abroad. Contemporarily with his lifelong friend

Carlo Maratta Carlo Maratta or Maratti (13 May 162515 December 1713) was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner. Although he is part of the classical tradition ...

, Trasi was a pupil of

Andrea Sacchi Andrea Sacchi (30 November 159921 June 1661) was an Italian painter of High Baroque Classicism, active in Rome. A generation of artists who shared his style of art include the painters Nicolas Poussin and Giovanni Battista Passeri, the sculptors ...

in Rome. Returning to Ascoli, he was active in painting churches and as a scenic designer for the theater. One of his masterworks is the ''Miracle of San Nicola di Bari'' for the church of

San Cristoforo, Ascoli Piceno San Cristoforo is a Baroque-style Roman Catholic church located on Rua d'Argillano in the town of Ascoli Piceno in the region of Marche Marche ( , ) is one of the twenty regions of Italy. In English, the region is sometimes referred to as The ...

. Among his pupils were Tommaso Nardini and Luca Vitelli (died 1730). His brother, Giovanni Trasi, was also a painter and became a later collaborator in quadratura with Pier-Sante Cicala.B. Orsini, page 233-234.

References

* *Rassegna bibliografica dell'arte italiana By E. (Egidio) Calzini, page 52.

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1634 births 1694 deaths People from Ascoli Piceno 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub