Luca Baudo Italian, 1460/65-1509/10

Luca Baudo (Novara, Italy 1460/1465 – Genova, Italy 1509/1510)

Documented for the first time in Liguria in 1481, when he was registered in the Matricula artis pictorie et scutarie.

His signed artworks are concentrated in a decade (1493-1503) and reveal his tendency to minimise descriptions and decorations, previously overabundant, for simpler and more monumental systems and forms, showcasing a precise and experimental lighting.

Baudo was a prominent figure in the Genoese artistic landscape of the 1500s.

Between 1490 and 1510, he produced various paintings including the polyptych of Sant'Agostino among Saints Monica e Ambrogio, ordered by Gerolamo and Battista Lomellini for the Church of San Teodoro (1497), a Madonna of the Rosary for the church of San Domenico and a Madonna between Saints Apollonia and Gerolamo, Chiara and Gottardo (1500-1503).

He died in 1509/10.

Photo UniCredit Group (Sebastiano Pellion di Persano)