What is Luigi Tagliaferri?
{{Infobox artist | name = Luigi Tagliaferri di Pagnona | image = Tagliaferri di Pagnona.jpg | image_size = 250px | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1841|11|14|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Pagnona]], Italy | death_date = {{death date and age|1927|09|30|1841|11|14|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Mandello del Lario]], Italy | spouse = | nationality = Italian | field = [[Sculpture]], [[Painting]], [[Drawing]] | training = | movement = [[Surrealism]], [[Formalism (art)|Formalism]] | works = [[Stations of the Cross (Lierna Lake Como)|Stations of the Cross of Lierna Lake Como]] | patrons = | awards = }} '''Luigi Eugenio Tagliaferri di Pagnona''' (Pagnona, November 14, 1841 - Mandello del Lario, September 30, 1927) was a Italian [[Sculpture|sculptor]], [[Painting|painter]], [[Drafter|draftsman]]. He stayed for a long time in Lierna, where he created many of his works. == Biography == Luigi Tagliaferri, known as Luigi di Pagnona, was born in Pagnona in Valsassina, but grew up in Mandello, descendant of a family of artists specialized in frescoes. [[File:Baruffini Affresco Luigi Tagliaferri 2.jpg|thumb|Fresco of Luigi Tagliaferri]] The first artist of the Tagliaferri dynasty was Giambattista Tagliaferri, author of a leather frontal for the church of Pagnona (1752), according to a then widespread taste. Luigi Tagliaferri is the son of Giovanni Maria Tagliaferri (1809-1879) who was for a long time in Venice as an engraver in the art of iron and then in Milan where, as an engraver, he invented a particular decoration technique on marble, of which some essays remain Margno and in Vendrogno. Giovanni Maria Tagliaferri in Milan also became a painter and created the paintings for the chapel of San Rocco in Premana, with a cycle on the plague (the frescoes in the parish church of San Dionigi have however been lost) and he painted the frescoes on the facades of churches such as San Martino of Indovero (1841), the church of Vimogno (1853) or the church of Bar