Gaspare Serenario (

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, Sicily 1707–1759) was an Italian painter, active mainly in a grand late

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style.

Biography

As a youth, he moved to Rome, where he lived for over thirty years. Along with the fellow Sicilian

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, Serenario trained under Sebastiano Conca, then the pre-eminent studio in Rome. Serenario was named knight of the Order of the Congregazione Pontificia dei Virtuosi al Pantheon. He returns to Palermo where he completes the cycle of decorations for the church of Santa Rosalia and completes frescos for Palazzo Mazzarino. He was nominated director of the mosaics of the Cappella Palatina. Short Biography
at Museo del Castello Ursino website. He painted an altarpiece depicting the ''Crucifixion with Mary, St John, and Mary Magdalen'' (1748) for a chapel of the church of

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1707 births 1759 deaths Painters from Palermo 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi al Pantheon {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub