Luigi Crosio

{"Id":2458,"Name":"Luigi Crosio","Biography":"Luigi Crosio was born in Alba, Italy in 1835 and died in Turin, 1915. He often painted religious works for the Kuenzli Brothers in Switzerland. This company specialised in religious and pious works for printing and distribution. There was a legal case in the 1890s regarding his painting \u003Cu\u003ERefuge of Sinners\u003C/u\u003E. This was his most successful image and another artist claimed the copyright for it. However, the Kuenzli Brothers produced photographs that showed the face of the Virgin was based on the face of one of Crosio\u0027s daughters. The last work that Crosio is recorded having painted for the Kuenzli Brothers was in 1911.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EHe was survived by Annette Crosio, one of several daughters, who is known to have been still living in Turin in 1923.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAcknowledgements:\u003C/strong\u003E\u003C/u\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EOur thanks go to Michael Savage for kindly compiling this information.\u003Cp\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":false,"HasRelationships":false,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":false,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":false,"TotalArtworks":3}