Ludovico Stern
Italian painter (1709-1777)
Ludovico Stern (October 5, 1709 – December 25, 1777) was an Italian painter of the Rococo or late-Baroque period, active in Rome. He is known for both large sacred and history paintings, as well as still lives, and portraits.
Biography
Stern was born in Rome to a Bavarian painter, Ignazio Stern, (Mariahilf, 1680 – Rome, 1748), who had moved to Italy around the year 1700. Ignazio had received work and training in the studio of Carlo Cignani in Rome. Ignazio had a two sons and two daughters, and all were also allied to the arts. His elder son, of the same name (died 1775) painted still-lives and portraits; a daughter Veronica was a portrait miniaturist, while Maddalena married the French painter Claude Vernet.
Stern initially trained with his father, but also studied later in the Academy of Parma and St Luke in Rome. In 1741, he was inducted into the Congregazione dei Virtuosi del Pantheon, and served as regent from 1755 to 1756. In the latter year, he became an academic of merit at the Accademia di San Luca.
Among his works are two canvases depicting the Extasis and Meditation of San Carlo Borromeo for the chapel of the said saint in Santa Prassede in Rome.
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