Natale Agostino Luci

(1857 - 1937)

oil on cardboard applied to the panel, signed and dated A. Luci 1908, framed, some defects

129x89 cm

Agostino Natale Luci, also known as Natale Luci (Florence, 10 December 1857 – Arezzo, 19 July 1937) was an Italian photographer and painter, the founder of a dynasty of Tuscan photographers active between Arezzo and Siena from the late 19th century through to the early decades of the 20th century. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, where he was taught by Giovanni Fattori and Raffaello Sernesi. He took his first steps in photography through a long apprenticeship with the Alinari brothers in Florence. He later retired to a flat in Fucecchio (FI)