Luigi Salerno, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian art historian
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Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
About Luigi Salerno
- Luigi Salerno (1924–1992) was an Italian historian of Italian art and historiographer.
- He is particularly known as a scholar of the Italian baroque and Salvator Rosa, with expertise on the 17th century, including Guercino and Caravaggio.Luigi Salerno was a student of Lionello Venturi.
- He went to London in 1948 and in 1949, working with the Warburg Institute.
- He received a prize for his work studying the links between the English and Italian art in 1600–1700.
- This work was appreciated by Rudolf Wittkower.
- He won the Fulbright prize and in London he started a prolific relation with Denis Mahon. In 1965 Luigi Salerno was a professor at Penn State University in the United States.
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