Ilario_Casolani

Ilario Casolano

Ilario Casolano

Italian painter


Ilario Casolano (1588 14 May 1661) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.

He was called Cristofano Casolano by Giovanni Baglione. He was, like his father, Alessandro Casolano, was a pupil of Cavalière Cristoforo Roncalli. He assisted his father in some of his frescoes, and after his death, finished the fresco of the Assumption of the Virgin. He painted several pictures for the churches in Rome. The church of Santa Maria in Via Lata contains a Trinity, while the church of Santa Maria ai Monti has some pictures from the Life of the Virgin and an Assumption. He died at Rome.

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References

  • Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I: A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 247.



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