Ludovico Trasi

Ludovico Trasi (1634–February 20, 1694) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, born and active in Ascoli Piceno.

Trasi was born to a little known painter, Antonio Trasi, who sent his son to study abroad. Contemporarily with his life-long friend Carlo Maratta, Trasi was a pupil of Andrea Sacchi in Rome. Returning to Ascoli, he was active in painting churches and as a scenic designer for the theater.^[1] He painted a San Niccolo for the church of San Cristoforo in Ascoli.

Among his pupils were Tommaso Nardini and Luca Vitelli (died 1730).^[2][3] His brother, Giovanni Trasi, was also a painter and became a later collaborator in quadratura with Pier-Sante Cicala.^[4]

References

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 584.
• Rassegna bibliografica dell'arte italiana By E. (Egidio) Calzini, page 52.

1. Descrizione Delle Pitture Sculture Architetture ed altre cose rare Della Insigne Citta delle Ascoli nelle Marca; by Baldassarre Orsini, Stamperia Baduelliana, Perugia, 1790. page 232-233.
2. B. Orsini, page 238.
3. Memorie intorno i letterati e gli artisti della città di Ascoli nel Piceno, by Giacinto Cantalamessa Carboni,page 209.
4. B. Orsini, page 233-234.