Luigi Pellegrini Scaramuccia (1616–1680) was an Italian

Italy

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 painter and artist biographer 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. He was a pupil, along with Giovanni Domenico Cerrini

Giovanni Domenico Cerrini

Giovanni Domenico Cerrini , also called Gian Domenico Cerrini or il Cavalier Perugino, was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome and influenced in large part by painter of the Bolognese School.-Biography:...

 of the painter Guido Reni

Guido Reni

Guido Reni was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style.-Biography:Born in Bologna into a family of musicians, Guido Reni was the son of Daniele Reni and Ginevra de’ Pozzi. As a child of nine, he was apprenticed under the Bolognese studio of Denis Calvaert. Soon after, he was joined in that...

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Born in Perugia

Perugia

Perugia is the capital city of the region of Umbria in central Italy, near the River Tiber, and the capital of the province of Perugia. The city is located about north of Rome. It covers a high hilltop and part of the valleys around the area....

, he left paintings throughout the peninsula, including Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

, Bologna

Bologna

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, and Milan

Milan

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. He is more highly regarded as a biographer or historian than the former. His book Le finezze de' pennelli italiani was one of the earliest compilations of biographies that included baroque artists from Bologna and Milan (published in 1674 in Pavia

Pavia

Pavia , the ancient Ticinum, is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 35 km south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It is the capital of the province of Pavia. It has a population of c. 71,000...

). Written as a pseudonymous account of travels through Italy, he appears to plagiarize extensively from prior biographers, including Raphaël Trichet du Fresne in his introduction to Leonardo

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance...

’s treatise in 1651.

In painting, he worked under Carlo Cignani

Carlo Cignani

Carlo Cignani was an Italian painter of the Bolognese and of the Forlivese school, active in the Baroque period....

 and alongside Lorenzo Pasinelli

Lorenzo Pasinelli

Lorenzo Pasinelli was an Italian painter from Bologna of the Baroque period, who trained in the studio of Simone Cantarini....

, Girolamo Bonini

Girolamo Bonini

Girolamo Bonini was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna. Also known as L'Aconitano due to his natal city of Ancona. He was the pupil of the painter Francesco Albani. He painted a Christ adored by angels, St. Sebastian, and St. Bonaventure owned by the Louvre museum...

, and Giovanni Maria Bibiena, in the fresco decoration of the ‘’Sala Farnese’’ in the Palazzo d'Accursio

Palazzo d'Accursio

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 (now City Hall) in Bologna

Bologna

Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...

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He also painted in 1670 a canvas of Federico Borromeo Visits the Leper House During the Plague of 1630 for the Ambrosiana Library in Milan; this was part of a large project promoted by Antonio Busca to decoate the Accademia Ambrosiana with works honoring the founder, Federico Borromeo

Federico Borromeo

Federico Borromeo was an Italian ecclesiastic, cardinal and archbishop of Milan.-Biography:Federico Borromeo was born in Milan as the second son of Giulio Cesare Borromeo, Count of Arona, and Margherita Trivulzio...

. The works recall the large Quadroni of St. Charles

Quadroni of St. Charles

The Quadroni of St. Charles Borromeo are two cycles of paintings depicting the life and miracles of the first Saint of the Counter Reformation. These very large paintings are displayed during the month of November in the Duomo of Milan in honor of St. Charles' name day on November 4...

 painted about the life of Carlo Borromeo for the Duomo of Milan. Onter painters in this project were Ambrogio Besozzi

Ambrogio Besozzi

Ambrogio Besozzi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.He was born in Milan where his first training was with Gioseffo Danedi, il Montalto. He is also known as Giovanni Ambrogio Besozzi. Assisted Ciro Ferri in Rome with work in quadratura and decoration. He returned to Milan, then Turin. He...

, Cesare Fiore, Andrea Lanzani

Andrea Lanzani

Andrea Lanzani was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.-Biography:Born in Milan in 1641, Lanzani received an initial academic training as an apprentice in the workshop of Luigi Scaramuccia, where he met Andrea Pozzo, a marked influence on his early work...

, and Antonio Busca himself. The Brera Gallery has a portrait of Scaramucci painted by his friend, Francesco Cairo

Francesco Cairo

Francesco Cairo was an Italian painter active in Baroque Lombardy and Piedmont.He was born and died in Milan. It is not known where he obtained his early training though he is strongly influenced by the circle of il Morazzone, in works such as the Saint Teresa altarpiece in the Certosa di Pavia.In...

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