Ilario Casolano

Ilario Casolani ( also mentioned as Ilario Casolano, * 1588 in Siena, † May 14, 1661 in Siena ) was an Italian painter who was active mainly in Siena.

Life

It was in 1588, the son of Alessandro Casolani and his wife Aurelia Rustici ( daughter of the painter Lorenzo Rustici ( 1512-1572 ) was born. His brother was six years older painter Cristoforo Casolani (also called Cristofano, about 1582 to 1622 ), with the he and his works were often confused. his training as a painter he received from his father and his uncle, Vincenzo Rustici. on October 1, 1606, he joined the Compagnia dei laicale Disciplinati sotto le volte dello Spedale of Santa Maria della Scala with. A travel to Rome was documented in 1620, but a year later he became active in San Quirico d' Orcia as a painter, where he Fresco Visione di San Francesco left in today defunct convent of San Francesco. 1 626 years he took Bernardino Capitelli, Giovan Paolo Pisani, Simondio Salimbeni and Niccolò Tornioli in the circle Tavola del Crucifix in part, to make the Oratorio di San Rocco in Siena. He died on 14 May 1661 his home in Vallepiatta ( located in the Contrada Selva ( Forest) ) in Siena. He left his son, Giuseppe d' Ilario Casolani (* 1633 in Siena, † September 2, 1670 probably ibid.), who was also a painter.

Works (selection)

  • Grosseto, Museo Archeologico e d' Arte della Maremma e Museo d'Arte Sacra Diocesan: Madonna col Bambino in gloria ei Santi Cipriano, Sebastiano, Lorenzo and Rocco ( canvas painting, 274 x 160 cm, 1630 emerged, was formerly exhibited in the Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Grosseto)
  • Porta Murata ( painting from 1630 showing the Porta Murata, was formerly exhibited in the chapel of the sacristy of the Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Grosseto)

Swell

  • Ilario Casolani. In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker et al: General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Volume 6, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p 118
  • Biografico Dizionario degli Italiani: Online edition of the DBI to Ilario Casolani
  • Saur: artists of the world, vol 17, p 108, KG Saur Verlag, Munich and Leipzig, 2003, ISBN 3-598-22757-4
  • Gianfranco Campanini and Andrea Muzzi: Oratori Contrada di, Editrice Tipografia Senese, Siena 1995
  • Torriti, Piero: Tutta Siena. Contrada by Contrada, Bonechi Edizioni, Florence, 2004, ISBN 88-7204-456-1
Alessandro Casolano Santa Maria della Scala (Siena) Oratorio di San Rocco (Siena) Montepulciano (disambiguation) Montieri Basilica of San Francesco (Siena) Arbia Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Giovanni Baglione
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