Luigi Miradori was an Italian

Italy

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 painter of the Baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 period, active mainly in Cremona

Cremona

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Miradori was born in Genoa

Genoa

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, thus also called il Genovese or Genovesino. He was a pupil of the painter Panfilo Nuvolone

Panfilo Nuvolone

Panfilo Nuvolone was an Italian painter of the Mannerist period, who painted both religious and still life topics, active in Cremona and Mantua....

 or il Tanzio or Pietro Martire Neri. In Cremona, he painted a Virgin in Glory for church San Clemente; and a Massacre of Innocents for the church of San Lorenzo. He painted an Execution of the Conspirators, once in the Casa Borri in Milan. He painted a Story of San Rocco for the Cathedral of Cremona, a St. John the Damascene & the Madonna (1648) for the church of Santa Maria Maddalena, a Rest during the flight to Egypt for the church of St. Imerio, and a Miracle of the bread & fishes and a Last Supper for the Palazzo Comunale. In the Cremonese Seminario he painted a Birth of San Carlo Borromeo (1642) and in the Museo Civico there are 11 paintings.