# LIGARI, Pietro [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1686–1752 - Profession: painter - School: Italian ## Biography Italian painter and architect, considered to be the most important 18th-century painter in Valtellina. He was born into a bourgeois family which took its name from the village Ligari where they lived. He was the founder of a family of painters linked to their land of origin but culturally open and active outside Valtellina. His son Caesar \(1716-1770\) and daughter Vittoria \(1713-1783\) were also painters. At twelve-years age Pietro Ligari went to Rome where he studied with Lazarus Baldi, a follower of Pietro da Cortona, and absorbed the influences of Baroque painting. After a study tour in Central Italy and Venice, in 1710 he settled in Milan, then in 1727 he moved to Valtellina where most of his works can be found. ## Related artworks - [Portrait of the Artist's Father]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()