Ludovico Pogliaghi was an Italian artist born into an upper middle class family in Milan. He studied at the Brera Academy and completed his studies in 1889. Pogliaghi was influenced by Giuseppe Bertini and obtained important commissions for the artistic decoration of palaces belonging to the Milanese aristocracy.

He also executed religious works and worked as an illustrator of historical subjects. Pogliaghi was appointed professor of decoration at the Brera Academy in 1890 and won a prestigious competition to design the bronze doors of the Duomo in Milan in 1895. He engaged in an intense activity that saw him involved in all the major official works of the time, including as a consultant to the Department of Antiquities and Fin...