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(1) Luca Longhi
(b Ravenna, 10 Jan 1507; d Ravenna, 12 Aug 1580). His earliest works, such as the Marriage of St Catherine (1529–32; Ravenna, Pin. Com.), show the influence of Baldassare Carrari ( fl 1489–1516), Francesco Zaganelli and Niccolò Rondinelli, but he also learnt from the works of mainstream painters, in particular Giorgio Vasari, as is evident in his Circumcision (1561; ex-S Benedetto, Ferrara; Ferrara, Pin. N.), in which he introduced portraits of Dante Alighieri, Michelangelo and Titian among the spectators. Vasari claimed that Luca Longhi never left Ravenna, and this isolation no doubt contributed to his limitations. However, he was a skilled portrait painter, his subjects being local dignitaries, patricians and professional men, such as Girolamo Rossi, Raffaele Rasponi and Giovanni Arrigoni (all 1567; all Ravenna, Accad. B.A.).
Part of the Longhi (i) family
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