Luigi Sacchi

Luigi Sacchi, who came into contact with the art world from an early age because of the professions of his father Giuseppe and cousin Defendente, enrolled at the Brera Academy in 1822. After an early career in painting, in which he was inspired by Francesco Hayez and Pelagio Palagi, going so far as to exhibit seven oil paintings at the annual Exhibitions of the Imperial Regia Accademia between 1827 and 1829, he shifted his artistic interest to woodcuts and lithography. Driven by a desire to document and popularize the artistic and cultural heritage of the Italian peninsula through these means, he assumed from 1835 the graphic direction of the magazine Cosmorama Pittorico whose general editorship was entrusted to his brother Giuseppe, his father's namesake, and his cousin Defendente. The magazine was a significant success, obtaining subscription requests from several parts of the peninsula in a still pre-unitary Italy.^[4]

• Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera, Luigi Sacchi lucigrafo a Milano 1805-1861, ed. Marina Miraglia, Milano, Federico Motta, 1996, ISBN 887179107X
• R. Cassanelli, "Luigi Sacchi e le origini della fotografia d'architettura in Italia", in La cultura architettonica nell'età della Restaurazione. Atti del Convegno... 2001, Milano 2002, pp. 385–394
• E. Gorra, La moderna xilografia in Italia, [Annone Brianza] 2011, pp. 18–20, 26–28, 466-469

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