Luciano Regoli was born in Terni in 1949. He graduates in 1970 from the artistic high school in Rome and studies for four years at the faculty of Architecture, which he will abandon to pursue his painting career.

1973 He begins an intense activity as a clerk in a museum with the purpose of studying ancient painting.

1975 At the end of the year he joins the workshop of the painter-priest Father Ortensio Gionfra in the convent of San Bonaventura al Palatino in Rome where he studies painting.

- He rents the art studio in Via del Governo Vecchio 73, near Piazza Navona in Rome.

1976 First one-man show in the room of the Castellina at the Palazzo del Vignola in Norcia.

- One-man show in Rome at the Galleria Tevere.

1977 One-man show at the gallery “Sette di Quadri”, in Arezzo.

- He illustrates several books for children for Edizioni Paoline.

1978 One-man show at the gallery Piero Della Francesca in Arezzo.

- In this year he begins working abroad as a portraitist.

He is invited by several Brasilian families and by the sculptor-plastic surgeon Doctor Josè De Angelis, and works in San Paulo and in Campinas. In San Paulo he meets the then director of the National Gallery of Modern Art of San Paulo, Professor Bardi who encourages him to pursue portraiture.

- One-man show at the Galleria Marani in Terni.

- One-man show at the Galleria La Darsena in Portoferraio.

1979 - During the winter he has a two-week exhibit at the Caplan Gallery in Sheffield, England.

- On this occasion, he studies for the first time and in depth English portraiture during a long sojourn in London.

- In October, he rents an art studio in Anticoli Corrado, near Rome, the town that offered many models to painting and sculpture in the 1800s and 1900s. He will sojourn frequently in this town in the years to come.

1980 He sets up his art studio in Portoferraio, Island of Elba.

- Under the protection of an important Swiss magnate family of collectors (Adda and Max Schmidheiny), on several occasions and for several months, he engages in a series of portraits in Zurig, Heerbrugg, Klosters, Davos and Gstaad.

- In contact with collectors, he refines his taste and love for great painting; the portraits of the Sprüngli chocolate magnates date back to this time.

- In the same year he is introduced to a painter from Istria, Iginio Gonni (1911-2003), with whom he had begun an artistic fellowship in 1975 which will last twenty eight years. He also begins a series of portraits of Florentine aristocrats among whom the Geddes da Filicaia and the Rucellai.

- In Rome, Gian Luigi Rondi, film critic and writer, and later President of the Biennale di Venezia encourages him and introduces him to Roman portraits.

- In May he executes the portrait of the Indian philosopher U.G. Krisnamurti.

1981 Series of portraits of Neapolitan people encouraged by the Calandra family, composed of architects and collectors.

- One-man show at the Galleria Luca Giordano in Naples.

1982 One-man show at the Galleria Luca Giordano in Naples.

- Starting in February, he returns to Switzerland on several occasions to execute other portraits near St Moritz.

- The Accademia Egiziana in Rome, on invitation of the then vice director and Egyptian painter Farouk Hosni, now minister for Egyptian culture, commissions the portrait of the Egyptian neo president Hosni Mubarak.

- He executes the portrait of Marina Letta in Rome.

1983 One-man show in September at the Pinacoteca of via Giulia, in Rome.

- The portraits of the Borghese family are executed this year. Dona Borghese will play an important role in his future artistic life.

- In Paris, he participates with two paintings to a competition promoted by the Ministry of French Culture for the appointment of scholarships at the Accademia di Francia in Rome.

1984 One-man show at the Linguella in the Torre Medicea del Martello in Portoferraio.

- He meets Duilio Morosini, critic and historian of Contemporary Art. A friendship is born as well as a stimulating artistic-critic fellowship that will last until his death in 1986.

1985 It is the year of the Siena production. He has an art studio/home in via Roma, in Siena.

- One-man show at the Galleria Antiquaria Mazzoni in Siena.

- In February, back to Switzerland for several portraits, this time sculpture.

1987 On invitation of Mrs. Elisabeth St. Louis, an Italo-American fond of painting and a woman with an extraordinary artistic sensitivity, he begins a series of American portraits that will bring him first to Denver and then to Phoenix, Arizona, where we will remain from April to June to execute the portraits of Siegal and Wolf-Swinkle.

- On this occasion, the movie director Paolo Mercadini shoots a 16 mm documentary “Arizona ’88, appunti di un ritrattista in viaggio”.

1988 In May, one-man show at the Accademia del Pontano in Naples sponsored by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage.

1989-90 He retires on Elba where he works in solitude on landscapes and still life.

1991 One-man show at the Linguella in the Torre Medicea del Martello in Portoferraio.

- One-man show in the Sala della Castellina of Palazzo del Vignola in Norcia.

1992 Thanks to the patronage of Ferruccio Nuzzo (in the role of Matthew in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Gospel according to Matthew) who also collected his paintings, he can use a studio located on Rue de Pot de Fer 2, Paris, until 1988. This allows him to sojourn extensively
in Paris, London and in the French countryside where he paints portraits and landscapes.

1994 For his exhibits, he no longer relies on traditional art galleries but entrusts his antique dealer friends to host his one-man shows.

- One-man show at the Galleria Antiquaria Rallo in Cremona.

- One-man show at the Galleria Cosy in Piacenza.

1995 On invitation of Lucia Caselli, antique dealer and collector of his works, he is introduced for the first time to Florentine portraiture.

- One-man show at the Lucia Caselli Antichità in Florence.

- One-man show at the Galleria Oggetti Smarriti in Rome.

- One-man show at the Centro per le Arti Visive e Figurative Telemaco Signorini, in Portoferraio.

- His first monograph is published by Edizioni ERA “Vitalità della Pittura Europea nella Pittura di Luciano Regoli”, with critical essays by Prof. Enrico Crispolti and Domenico Guzzi, and an introduction by Gian Luigi Rondi, as well as “Il Pittore Volante” a sort of “Journal” reviewing fifteen years of travels, notes, and remarks on art.

1996 He meets the singer Cristina Cioni, daughter of tenor Renato Cioni, who becomes his model and companion. Cristina will model in most of his future works.

1997 One-man show at the Galleria Eleuteri in Rome.

1998 One-man show at the Galleria Eleuteri in Rome.

1999 In the region of Trentino and especially in Trent, he executes an extensive collection of portraits that will busy him for months.

2000 One-man show at the art studio La Saletta in Cremona.

- One-man show at the Galleria Il Selvaggio in via Ripetta in Rome.

2002 One-man show at the Galleria Antiquaria Marani in Rome.

- One-man show at the art studio La Saletta in Cremona.

- He is granted audience by Giulio Andreotti to discuss a future portrait, which will never be executed.

- On commission of Francesco Mazzei, a collector of his works, he makes his first attempts with sacred art and executes the altar-piece La Lapidazione di Santo Stefano (330 x 254 cm) for the Romanic church dedicated to Santo Stefano in Campioni di Buggiano, Pistoia’s countryside.

2003 In April and June he is in Sicily for some portraits of Syracusan people. On this occasion, the film director Paolo Mercadini shoots the documentary Caravaggio a Siracusa where Regoli plays the role of the portraitist on the tracks of the genesis and the sites of Caravaggio’s masterpiece Il Seppellimento di Santa Lucia.

2004 In March, exhibition at the Arte Expò ’900 in Montecarlo.

- He executes Lo Sposalizio mistico di Santa Caterina for the hermitage of Santa Caterina in Rio nell’Elba. Luciano Regoli lives and works in Portoferraio, Island of Elba.