Also called
Luca da Reggio. He was reputedly initially a trainee of
Alessandro Tiarini. Moschini identifies him as a pupil of
Guido Reni. He later worked with
Leonello Spada,
Alessandro Tiarini, and
Carlo Bononi in the 1610 - 1620s were decorating the basilica of the
Madonna della Ghiara in his native city of
Reggio Emilia. In 1635 he joined the
Fraglia dei pittori of
Padua for two years. He frescoed episodes of the
Life of Antenore (1650) for the Villa Selvatico at
Battaglia Terme, and in the following years he painted seven panels depicting the
Mysteries of the Rosary for the ceiling of
San Tommaso Cantauriense's church in Padua. He painted both large historical canvases and small cabinet pieces. Among his pupils in
Padua was
Giulio Cirello. Moschini identifies
Giovanni Battista Pelizzari and
Francesco Minorello as pupils. ==References==