Luca Ferrari

Luca Ferrari (February 17 1605-February 8 1654) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.

Also called "Luca da Reggio". He was reputedly initially a trainee of Ludovico Tiarini, but later worked with Leonello Spada, Alessandro Tiarini, and Carlo Bononi in the 1610 - 1620s were decorating the basilica of the Madonna della Ghiara in his native city of Reggio Emilia. In 1635 he joined the 'Fraglia dei pittori' of Padua for two years. He frescoed for the Villa Selvatico at Battaglia Terme, with episodes of the "Life of Antenore" (1650), and in the following years he painted seven panels for the ceiling of San Tommaso Cantauriense's church in Padua with the "Mysteries of the Rosary". He painted both large historical canvases and small cabinet pieces.

* [http://www.wga.hu/bio/f/ferrari/luca/biograph.html| Web Gallery of Art.]
* [http://ville.inews.it/ereggio.htm| short biography.]