Luigi Garzi, here is the important monograph on the great seventeenth-century artist

Will be presented today, Wednesday, January 30, at 5 p.m. at the Corsini Gallery in Rome, the book Luigi Garzi 1638-1721. Roman Painter, an important monograph on Luigi Garzi (Pistoia, 1638 - 1721), edited by Francesco Grisolia and Guendalina Serafinelli, and published by Officina Libraria. The volume will be introduced by Liliana Barroero and Riccardo Lattuada.

A versatile painter and skilled draughtsman, Luigi Garzi was celebrated by eighteenth-century historiography for his long and industrious artistic activity under the banner of grace, formal elegance, creative originality and fine chromatic elaboration. He was born in Rome, where he lived and worked for most of his life, training at a very young age under Vincent Adriaenssen known as Manciola and completing his education in the workshops of Salomon Backereel and Andrea Sacchi. He was a member and prince of the Academy of St. Luke and regent of the Congregation of the Virtuosi at the Pantheon.

His production is documented in the papal capital from the 1760s-1970s with the creation of the first works for public and private use. These were enterprises that consolidated his reputation as an altarpiece layout artist and fresco decorator, securing him commissions outside Rome as well, including the prestigious Neapolitan commissions of the last years of the 17th century. In more than eighty years of life and artistic activity, Garzi, as emerges from the contributions collected in the volume, revealed himself to be a painter of uncommon receptive abilities, a refined exponent of the figurative culture of the Roman Baroque and an intelligent anticipator of the instances of the Rococo.

The volume is already on sale (cost is 30.00 euros) on the publisher’s website.

Luigi Garzi, here is the important monograph on the great seventeenth-century artist

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