![Self Portrait of the Artist Painting his Wife by Giulio Quaglio I](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Self_Portrait_of_the_Artist_Painting_his_Wife_by_Giulio_Quaglio_I.jpg)
Giulio Quaglio the Elder (1610–1658 or after) was an Italian
painter of
frescoes.
He was a follower of
Tintoretto
Tintoretto ( , , ; born Jacopo Robusti; late September or early October 1518Bernari and de Vecchi 1970, p. 83.31 May 1594) was an Italian painter identified with the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticized the speed wit ...
. He is known to have worked in Vienna, Salzburg, and Ljubljana.
His son,
Giulio Quaglio the Younger, was born in
Laino
Laino (Comasco: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about north of Milan and about north of Como.
Laino borders the following municipalities: Alta Valle Intelvi, Blessagno, Centro V ...
and established himself in the
Friuli
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about the end of the 17th century.
Giulio the Younger, who died in 1720, is best known for his frescoes at the chapel of the Monte di Pietà, in
Udine
Udine ( , ; fur, Udin; la, Utinum) is a city and ''comune'' in north-eastern Italy, in the middle of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic Sea and the Alps (''Alpi Carniche''). Its population was 100,514 in 2012, 176,000 with t ...
.
They are both part of a large family of artists and architects from the town of
Laino
Laino (Comasco: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about north of Milan and about north of Como.
Laino borders the following municipalities: Alta Valle Intelvi, Blessagno, Centro V ...
, between
Lake Lugano
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and
Lake Como, and which included
Giuseppe Quaglio
Giuseppe Quaglio (2 December 1747 – 23 January 1828) was an Italian painter and stage designer, active in scene painting in Mannheim, Frankfurt, and Ludwigsburg.
Vinicius de Castro Quaglio (April 27, 1989) family ties in Brazil
Born in ...
and his sons
Lorenzo the Younger,
Simon
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People
* Simon (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name Simon
* Simon (surname), including a list of people with the surname Simon
* Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genus ...
, and
Domenico
Domenico is an Italian given name for males and may refer to:
People
* Domenico Alfani, Italian painter
* Domenico Allegri, Italian composer
* Domenico Alvaro, Italian mobster
* Domenico Ambrogi, Italian painter
* Domenico Auria, Italian archit ...
;
Lorenzo Quaglio the Elder; and
Giovanni Maria Quaglio the Elder and
his son.
References
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1610 births
1658 deaths
Painters from Lombardy
Italian Baroque painters
17th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
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