Paolo Pagani

Paolo Pagani ( born September 22, 1655 in Castello Valsolda; † May 5, 1716 in Milan ) was an agent working in Milan and Venice painter of the Rococo period. Pagani painted history paintings, allegories, large-scale altarpieces and frescoes. Only very few works Pagani have survived, others could not be attributed unequivocally to him.

Pagani's paintings are characterized by a dynamic conception of the human body, dramatic composition, naturalistically rendered details and a virtuoso, trained to Caravaggio lighting.

Life

Pagani was born the son of Mario Pagano and Maddalena Paracco in Castello at Valsolda. About his early years and his education there are few documents. Between 1667 and 1668, he settled in Venice. In 1675 he received the commission for the Palazzo Molin in Venice a " Martyrdom of St. Erasmus painting, now in the Galleria Nazionale di palazzo Spinola in Genoa. In 1680 he produced a series of etchings after paintings by the artist and engraver Giuseppe Damantini ( 1621-1705 ). In 1692 he received from Prince Bishop Karl of Liechtenstein the order to paint a room of his residence in Kremsier in Moravia with frescos in 1752 but destroyed in a fire. His frescoes in the church of the monastery in Moravia Vehlerad have not survived.

Pagani was married and had two sons, both born in Milan, Angelo Antonio ( * 1694 ) and Guglielmo Pietro ( * 1697 ). He died in 1716 in Milan and was interred in the church of Santa Maria del Giardino near the Teatro alla Scala.

Works

• St. Jerome to 1685/1690, the Liechtenstein Museum
• The St. Liborius heals a sick, 1617, Church of San Marco in Milan
• '' Allegory of the Eucharist, Museo "Casa Pagani ," Castello Valsolda