Aurelio Lomi
Aurelio Lomi was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods, active mainly in his native town of Pisa, in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
Biography
The brother of the painters Orazio Gentileschi and Baccio Lomi, he may have initially been trained by his father, Giovanni Battista Lomi, but soon he worked in Florence under the painters Alessandro Allori and Lodovico Cardi. In Pisa, he painted a St. Jerome for the Duomo of Pisa, in addition to frescoes for San Frediano and Santo Stefano. He painted an altarpiece for Santa Apollonia.He also worked in Rome and Genoa. He painted a St. Anthony of Padua for the church of San Francesco di Castelletto 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.
Besides his half-brother Orazio Gentileschi, his pupils included Orazio Riminaldi, Simone Balli, Domenico Fiasella, Pietro Gnocchi, and Augustin Montanari.
Works
Saint Anthony of Padua, Church of San Francesco, Castelletto, GenoaResurrection and Last Judgement, Santa Maria in Carignano, GenoaBirth of the Virgin, church of San Siro (Genoa).- ''Deposition from the Cross''