Luigi Garzi (1638–1721)

• Was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
• Born in Pistoia.
• He started learning from a landscape painter Salomon Boccali.
• But at age 15, he moved to Rome, where he was one of the main pupils of Andrea Sacchi.
• He is also often referred to as Ludovico Garzi.
• In 1680 Garzi was appointed Regent of the Congregazione dei Virtuosi al Pantheon, the papal society of painters.
• Garzi joined Rome's guild of painters, The Accademia di San Luca, in 1670 and became a director in 1682.
• He painted a Triumph of St Catherine & Saints for the church of Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli in Rome.

• In the early 1680s, he contributed to the frescoes on the vault of San Carlo al Corso, where his works included an Allegory of Faith.

• He contributed a canvas to the Cagli Cathedral. 

• In Naples, he painted the ceiling and some chapels for Santa Caterina del Formello.

• He died in Rome. 

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