Luigi Morgari Biography
Luigi Morgari (Turin, 1 January 1857 – Turin, 1 January 1935) was an Italian painter. He was a student of Enrico Gamba and Andrea Gastaldi at the Albertina Academy. He collaborated for a long time with his father Paolo Emilio and his uncle Rodolfo on the "decorative arts", a characteristic activity of the Morgari family. He dedicated himself to compositions of profane and religious subjects; he was also an accurate realist and a good colourist. He established himself at exhibitions in Turin, Milan, Florence and Rome. He was above all a fresco painter and left numerous paintings in the sanctuaries of Bussana and Rho, in the cathedral of Alessandria, in the church of San Gioacchino in Turin, in the church of San Michele Arcangelo in Olevano di Lomellina (Pavia), in the palaces of the Quartana family in Genoa in San Luca d'Albaro and in the church of San Siro in Lomazzo (CO), later also reproduced in Tirano (SO). In 1919, he frescoed the parish church of SS. Trinità and San Bassiano in Gradella, a hamlet of Pandino, (diocese of Lodi, province of Cremona) with a cycle dedicated to San Bassiano, the first bishop of the Lodi diocese. Also noteworthy are the panels of saints and evangelists and the two side chapels, one dedicated to Sant'Eurosia and the other to the Madonna del Rosario. In the period 1922-23 he frescoed the parish church of Cortazzone with a San Secondo on horseback and on the vault San Siro blessing the town. Among all his interventions, the frescoes in the minor Roman basilica of San Nicolò in Lecco, created between 1925 and 1928, stand out. Among the paintings we remember the San Giuseppe Cottolengo in Sant'Andrea a Bra.
