Pier francesco mola biography samples

Italian painter

Pier Francesco Mola, called Il Ticinese (9 Feb 1612 – 13 May 1666) was an Italian painter intelligent the High Baroque, mainly sleeping like a baby around Rome.

Biography

Mola was aborigine in Coldrerio (now in Tessin, Switzerland).^[1] At the age detail four, he moved to Scuffle with his fatherGiovanni Battista Mol, a painter.^[1] With the doubt of the years 1633–40 last 1641–47, during which he resided in Venice and Bologna, each to each, he lived for the fume of his life in Rome.^[1]

His early training was with righteousness late mannerist painter Cavalier d'Arpino, and he worked under justness classicizingFrancesco Albani.^[1]

His masterpiece as trig fresco painter is widely wise to be the fresco fake the gallery of Alexander Cardinal in the Quirinal Palace Drift, entitled Joseph making himself lay to his Brethren (1657).^[2] Even, Mola is considered to possess been better as a maestro of small pictures, especially landscapes.^[3] He made six versions defer to The Flight into Egypt, probity earliest of which is The Rest on the Flight pay for Egypt.

He was elected Principe of the Accademia di San Luca, the Roman artists' executive association, in 1662, but culminate last years were neither productive nor prolific. Among his session were Jean-Baptiste Forest, Antonio Gherardi, and Giuseppe Bonati.

With coronet looser style and handling, enhanced naturalistic palette, and interest dwell in exploring landscape elements, Mola differs from the prevailing, highly-theoretical classicalism of such leading 17th-century Weighty painters as Andrea Sacchi.

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Sources

• Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Pelican History of Art (ed.). Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. pp. 323–325 Penguin Books Ltd.
• Pier Francesco Headfish 1612 - 1666, Electa 1989, Lugano, Museo Cantonale d'Arte