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Luigi Nanni was born in Rome, where he had cultural breeding.

Always interested in music and theatre, with a strong spiritual affinity with the old composers (Bach, Buxtehude, Haendel, De Morales, Palestrina) and theatre works with a "Mitteleuropean" matrix, such as Buchner's Woyzeck and Wedekind's Pandora's Box (wich have also become the extraordinary librettos of two of this century's most important Operas, Berg's Wozzeck and Lulu), Nanni succeeds in evoking the characters of these plays picturesquely (as he also does with Mozart's Don Giovanni) with an amazing capacity for auto-suggestion. Fascinated by the shapes of ancient musical instruments, organs, lutes, flutes, clavichords, through his painting he exalts their ambiguos nature of "objects" tout-court and "links" between the atmosphere created by the various resonances and the enjoyer, and makes them coming out as characters, creatures "taken out of time and made eternal on the thread of the music that first called them into life" (thus writes S. Battisti, in the introduction to the catalogue for the exhibition at the Bank of Italy).