Count Adamo Chiusole (1728 - 1787) was an Austrian painter and art historian. He mainly painted subjects with animals, landscapes and capricci.
Biography
He was born in Chiusole, a neighborhood of
Pomarolo
Pomarolo (''Pomaròl'' in local dialect) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in Trentino located around southwest of Trento in the northern Italian region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol.
Overview
The municipality of Pomarolo contains the ''subdiv ...
in the
Vallagarina
Lagarina Valley ( it, Vallagarina, german: Lagertal) is a valley in northern Italy, used to define the lower mountain course of the Adige River. It is mostly included in the province of Trentino, with the lower section being part of the provinc ...
, in the Province of
Trentino
Trentino ( lld, Trentin), officially the Autonomous Province of Trento, is an autonomous province of Italy, in the country's far north. The Trentino and South Tyrol constitute the region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, an autonomous region ...
, region of
Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
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. He studied first in
Siena
Siena ( , ; lat, Sena Iulia) is a city in Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the province of Siena.
The city is historically linked to commercial and banking activities, having been a major banking center until the 13th and 14th centuri ...
, then in Rome under
Pompeo Battoni
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (25 January 1708 – 4 February 1787) was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous allegorical and mythological pictures. The high number of foreign visitors tra ...
. In Rome, he resided in the Palazzo of the gran contestabile Lorenzo
Colonna
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, his fellow pupil. He then gained the patronage of Cardinal
Scipione Borghese. He was named Count of the Holy Palace and Knight of the
Order of the Golden Spur by Pope
Benedict XIV. Chiusole turned down and offer to be the inspector of the Royal Gallery of Berlin under
Frederick the Great
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of Prussia. He did publish a book praising the King.
In addition, to painting, he was versatile as a writer of both prose and poetry. He is described as having a ''clear style but without energy''. He is described as praising his own works, both written and painted, as better than his contemporaries.
Literary works
*''Componimenti pratici sopra la pittura trionfante'' (Siena, 1751)
*''Il perfetto modello del valor militare raffigurato nella Maestà di Federico III Re di Prussia'' (Rovereto, 1778)
*''Componimento drammatico in lode di
Caterina II Imperatrice di tutte le Russie'' (Rovereto, 1784)
*''Componimento per il felice arrivo ai suoi feudi del conte Cesare da Castelbarco''
*''Componimenti poetici per il tenente maresciallo Giancarlo Partini''
*''Componimento poetico per
Benedetto XIV''
Le pitture, sculture ed. architetture più rare di Roma (Vicenza, 1782)
*
Itinerario delle pitture, sculture ed architetturre più rare di molte città d Italia'
*''Della vita nobile e cavalleresca'' (Vicenza, 1782)
*''Lettera ad un amico sopra il villaggio di Chiusole'' (Verona, 1785)
*''Lettera ad un amico Sopra l'Onore''
*''Lettera Sopra il teatro delle piccole città'';
*''Notizie antiche e moderne della
Valle Lagarina'' in supplement to the history of Rovereto by Tartarotti (Verona, 1785).
''Dell'arte pittorica'': libri VIII (1768).
His biography was noted by
Clementino Vannetti
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(Commentariolum de Adamo Clusolo. Veronae, 1787).
Scrittori ed artisti trentini
by Francesco Ambrosi, Giovanni Zippel Editor, 1883, Trento, page 95.
He died in Rovereto
Rovereto (; "wood of sessile oaks"; locally: ''Roveredo'') is a city and ''comune'' in Trentino in northern Italy, located in the Vallagarina valley of the Adige River.
History
Rovereto was an ancient fortress town standing at the frontier b ...
.
References
1728 births
1787 deaths
18th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Italian art historians
18th-century Italian male artists
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