Teglio 1745: un Ligari "svelato", tra Pietro e Cesare

The essay introduce to a Saint John of Nepomuk, preserved in Teglio and presented by Pietro Ligari to the canon Giovanni Giacomo Morelli in JUne 1745. The text provides a biographical background of the dean of Sant'Eufemia, who throughout his life kept up a special relationship with the painter, as can be attested by the small amount of previously unreleased letters, which also refer to other Valtellinese commissions. The Saint John of Nepomuk depiction also gives some insight into the Ligari workshop in the mid XVIII century, marked by the strong reciprocal relationship between Pietro and his son Cesare