Luigi Salerno

Who was Luigi Salerno?

Luigi Salerno was an Italian historian of Italian art and historiographer. He is particularly known as a scholar of the Italian baroque and Salvator Rosa, with expertise on the 17th century, including Guercino and Caravaggio.

Luigi Salerno was a student of Lionello Venturi. He went to London in 1948 and in 1949, working with the Warburg Institute. He received a prize for his work studying the links between the English and Italian art in 1600-1700. This work was appreciated by Rudolf Wittkower. He won the Fulbright prize and in London he started a prolific relation with Denis Mahon. In 1965 Luigi Salerno was a professor at Penn State University in the United States.