Luca Ferrari (February 17, 1605 – February 8, 1654) 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 ...

period.

Luca Ferrari - Tiberio Tinelli - Portrait of a Lady GG 6537TMS

Biography

Also called ''Luca da Reggio''. He was reputedly initially a trainee of

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. Moschini identifies him as a pupil of

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. He later worked with

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, and

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in the 1610 - 1620s were decorating the basilica of the Madonna della Ghiara in his native city of

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. In 1635 he joined the ''Fraglia dei pittori'' of

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for two years. He frescoed episodes of the ''Life of Antenore'' (1650) for the Villa Selvatico at

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, and in the following years he painted seven panels depicting the ''Mysteries of the Rosary'' for the ceiling of San Tommaso Cantauriense's church in Padua. He painted both large historical canvases and small cabinet pieces. Among his pupils in

was Giulio Cirello. Moschini identifies Giovanni Battista Pelizzari and Francesco MinorelloMoschini, page 103. as pupils.

References

Web Gallery of Art.
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