Aurelio Lomi
Aurelio Lomi (29 February 1556 – 1622)painter of the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods, active mainly in his native town of Pisa, Tuscany.
Biography
He may have initially been trained by his father, Giovanni Battista Lomi, but soon he worked in Florence (1580-1590) under the painters
Santa Apollonia. He painted a St Anthony of Padua for the church of San Francesco di Casteletto in Genoa, and a Resurrection of Christ and Last Judgement for Santa Maria Assunta in Carignano. In Rome, he painted frescoes in the Pinelli chapel of Chiesa Nuova
, including Scenes from the life of the Virgin and Birth of Jesus on the arches, and the Dormition, Coronation, and Funeral of the Madonna on the vault. The walls are frescoed with Rebecca and Eleazar and Yael and Sisera.
A pupil and half-brother of Lomi was
Pietro Gnocchi (painter), and Augustin Montanari
.
Works
- Saint Anthony of Padua, Church of San Francesco, Castelletto, Genoa
- Resurrection and Last Judgement, Santa Maria in Carignano, Genoa
- Birth of the Virgin, church of San Siro (Genoa).
- Deposition from the Cross
Works in Pisa
- Madonna and Angels, Palazzo Gambacorti.
- Saint Jerome (1595), Pisa Cathedral.
- Virtue, Church of San Michele in Borgo.
- Adoration by the Magi, Church of San Frediano.
- Glory of St. Thomas (1563) Church of Santa Caterina d'Alessandria.
- Madonna and Child behind Saint Joseph and Stephen (1593), Church of Santo Stefano dei Cavalieri.
- Madonna with saints Ranieri, Torpè, and Leonardo. San Ranierino.
References
- ^ Memorie istoriche di più uomini illustri pisani, Volume 4, by M.Angelo Fabroni. Pisa, 1792, page 369.
- ^ Fabroni, page 371.
- Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.). Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. London: Woodfall & Kinder. p. 88.
- Hobbes, James R. (1849). Picture collector's manual; Dictionary of Painters. London: T. & W. Boone. pp. 152.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Aurelio Lomi.
- Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi, a fully digitized exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries, which contains material on Aurelio Lomi (see index)
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