The brother of the painters
Orazio Gentileschi (who would be one of his pupils) and
Baccio Lomi, he may have initially been trained by his father, Giovanni Battista Lomi, but soon he worked in
Florence (1580–1590) under the painters
Alessandro Allori and
Lodovico Cardi (known as Cigoli). In Pisa, he painted a
St. Jerome (1595) for the
Duomo of Pisa, in addition to frescoes for
San Frediano and
Santo Stefano. He painted an altarpiece for
Santa Apollonia. He also worked in
Rome and
Genoa. He painted a
St. Anthony of Padua for the church of
San Francesco di Castelletto in Genoa, and a
Resurrection of Christ and
Last Judgement for
Santa Maria Assunta in
Carignano. In Rome, he painted frescoes in the Pinelli chapel of
Chiesa Nuova, including
Scenes from the Life of the Virgin and
Birth of Jesus on the arches, and the
Dormition,
Coronation, and
Funeral of the Madonna on the vault. The walls are frescoed with
Rebecca and Eleazar and
Yael and Sisera. Besides his half-brother Orazio Gentileschi, his pupils included
Orazio Riminaldi,
Simone Balli,
Domenico Fiasella,
Pietro Gnocchi, and
Augustin Montanari. ==Works==