Biography

Italian painter, active in and near Ravenna, He produced mainly portraits and religious paintings.

Among his portraits, he painted a portrait of Giovanni Guidiccione, bishop of Fossombrone; of Giulio dalla Rovere, Cardinal of Urbino, who died 1577; as well as Alessandro Sforza, Cardinal Legate of Romagna; Cristoforo Boncompagni, archbishop of Ravenna; and Giovanni Battista Rossi, Generale del Carmine, who died in Rome in 1577.

He trained two of his children, Francesco Longhi and Barbara Longhi. Barbara collaborated with him on several of his later works. Both he and his daughter were among the artists mentioned by Vasari.

Along with his children, he painted a Marriage at Cana for the refectory of the convent and the organ doors of the church of the Camaldolesi in Ravenna. In the picture were depicted his daughter Barbara, and his son Francesco, and the Abbot of the Monastery, Don Pietro Bagnolo da Bagnacavallo. He painted an Ascension of Christ for the Cathedral of Cervia. He died in Ravenna of a catarrhal illness, that spread from Paris throughout Italy.