Giovanni Pietro Ligario

Giovanni Pietro Ligario (1686–1748) was an Italian painter and architect of the late-Baroque.

He was born at Ardenno province of Sondrio in the Valtelline valley, and after early training there, moved to Rome, where he frequented the studio of Lazzaro Baldi, and afterwards visited Venice.

On his return to his native town in 1727, he was employed in painting historical pictures for churches and private collections.

His children, Angelo, Cesare, and Vittoria were also painters.

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1880s photograph of a portrait by Ligario of Margaretha (1704–1765), wife of Anton de Salis-Soglio (Casa Battista) (1702–1765), Grisons Bundespraesident and Chur Stadrichter, and sister of Jerome, 2nd Count de Salis . [ 1 ]