The Genoese Transition Antonio Semini represents a specific, necessary shift in the late Renaissance landscape of Genoa. He did not merely replicate the traditions of his predecessors; he modernized them. Trained under Ludovico Brea, Semini took the established visual language of his mentor and pushed it toward a new sensibility. His work reflects a deliberate move away from the rigidities of the earlier period, favoring a style that leaned into the grace and clarity popularized by Perugino. This was not a passive inheritance. It was a calculated stylistic evolution that helped define the Gen…