Career
He is particularly known as a scholar of the Italian baroque and Salvator Rosa, with expertise on the 17th century, including Guercino and Caravaggio. Luigi Salerno was a student of Lionello Venturi. He went to London in 1948 and in 1949, working with the Warburg Institute.
This work was appreciated by Rudolf Wittkower.
In 1965 Luigi Salerno was a professor at Penn State University in the United States.
