Aurelio Lomi

Aurelio Lomi (29 February 1556 – 1622)^[1] was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods, active mainly in his native town of Pisa, Tuscany.

St Sebastian before the Roman Emperor, at the Church of Santissima Annunziata, Florence.

Biography

He may have initially been trained by his father, Giovanni Battista Lomi, but soon he worked in Florence (1580-1590) under the painters Alessandro Allori, then Lodovico Cardi (known as Cigoli).^[2] He was the nephew of the painter Baccio Lomi. He painted in Pisa, Florence, Rome, and Genoa. He painted a St. Jerome (1595) for the Duomo of Pisa. In addition he painted frescoes of San Frediano and Santo Stefano. He painted an altarpiece for Santa Apollonia. He painted a St Anthony of Padua for the church of San Francesco di Casteletto in Genoa, and a Resurrection of Christ and Last Judgement for Santa Maria Assunta in Carignano. In Rome, he painted frescoes in the Pinelli chapel of Chiesa Nuova, including Scenes from the life of the Virgin and Birth of Jesus on the arches, and the Dormition, Coronation, and Funeral of the Madonna on the vault. The walls are frescoed with Rebecca and Eleazar and Yael and Sisera.

Lomi taught painting to his half-brother Orazio Gentileschi (born 1562). Other pupils included Orazio Riminaldi, Simone Balli, Domenico Fiasella, Pietro Gnocchi (painter), and Augustin Montanari.

Works

• Saint Anthony of Padua, Church of San Francesco, Castelletto, Genoa
• Resurrection and Last Judgement, Santa Maria in Carignano, Genoa
• Birth of the Virgin, church of San Siro (Genoa).
• Deposition from the Cross

Works in Pisa

• Madonna and Angels, Palazzo Gambacorti.
• Saint Jerome (1595), Pisa Cathedral.
• Virtue, Church of San Michele in Borgo.
• Adoration by the Magi, Church of San Frediano.
• Glory of St. Thomas (1563) Church of Santa Caterina d'Alessandria.
• Madonna and Child behind Saint Joseph and Stephen (1593), Church of Santo Stefano dei Cavalieri.
• Madonna with saints Ranieri, Torpè, and Leonardo. San Ranierino.

References

1. Memorie istoriche di più uomini illustri pisani, Volume 4, by M.Angelo Fabroni. Pisa, 1792, page 369.
2. Fabroni, page 371.

• Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.). Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. London: Woodfall & Kinder. p. 88.
• Hobbes, James R. (1849). Picture collector's manual; Dictionary of Painters. London: T. & W. Boone. pp. 152.

External links

• Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi, a fully digitized exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries, which contains material on Aurelio Lomi (see index)