Tarquinio Ligustri

It is not clear where and with whom he was trained, but his examples similar to his landscape paintings would have been visible nearby at the Farnese palace of Caprarola and the villa of Cardinal Gianfrancesco Gambara at Bagnaia.

In the next two years, he would end up decorating, along with Giovanni Antonio Mussi, Ludovico Nucci, and Baldassarre Croce, the stairs accessing the piano nobile.

The last documented works of Ligustri was in 1607-1613: the decoration of the vault of the Alli Maccarani chapel in San Marcello al Corso.

Subsequent works, including the stories of Tusculum in the Farnese loggia of the Grottaferrata abbey, which were more likely painted by Cornelis Loots.

An entry in the registry of San Lorenzo in Lucina suggests he died by 1615, although the biographer Baglione has him living in 1621 at the end of the papacy of Paul V.[1]