Luigi Pellegrini Scaramuccia (1616–1680) was an Italian painter and artist biographer of the Baroque period. He was a pupil, along with Giovanni Domenico Cerrini of the painter Guido Reni.
Born in Perugia to the painter Giovanni Antonio Scaramuccia, he left paintings throughout the peninsula, including Rome, Bologna, and Milan. 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).[1] 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’s treatise in 1651.
Geddo, Cristina, Luigi Scaramuccia: Biografia; Luigi Scaramuccia: Cristo flagellato, Cannobio, Santuario della Pietà, in Pittura tra il Verbano e il Lago d'Orta dal Medioevo al Settecento, ed. M. Gregori, Milano, Cariplo, 1996, pp. 295–297, plate 91 (https://unige.academia.edu/CristinaGeddo, ad vocem, with updated abstract).
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