Luigi Agretti

[2] At the age of fifteen, in 1891, he traveled to Monte Castello di Vibio, in the province of Perugia, where he already received his first solo project: the decoration of the Teatro della Concordia (restored in 1993 and still active today), which is considered the world's smallest theater, with ninety-nine seats.

[3][4] In 1895, in Genoa, he won a scholarship for young artists and was able to go to Rome, where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts and simultaneously worked for his mentors Domenico Bruschi and Annibale Brugnoli, assisting them in many projects in Rome, Florence (Palazzo Cesaroni), Perugia, Cagliari, and Palestrina (Duomo).

Upon returning to Liguria, he painted frescoes in the parish churches of Neirone, San Pellegrino di Sturla, Favale di Malvaro, and the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Arcola.

[2] He created three fresco medallions in the atrium of the ticket office of the train station in his city as we as canvases, including Le nozze di Psiche, Mater Amabilis (exhibited in Florence in 1900), an Allegoria della guerra, Tricolore (preserved in the Pinacoteca Comunale of La Spezia), and several landscapes, kept in the Pinacoteca in Imola.

[1] In 1934, he participated in the Fascista Belle Arti di La Spezia, the First Provincial Exhibition, with works such asSulla Magra and Pesca agli Stagnoni.