Ilario Casolano (1588 – 14 May 1661) was an Italian painter of the

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

period. He was called ''Cristofano Casolano'' by

Giovanni Baglione Giovanni Baglione (1566 – 30 December 1643) was an Italian Late Mannerist and Early Baroque painter and art historian. He is best remembered for his acrimonious and damaging involvement with the slightly younger artist Caravaggio and ...

. He was, like his father,

Alessandro Casolano Alessandro Casolani (1552–1606) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period, active mainly in Siena. Biography He was also called ''Alessandro della Torre''. He was born at Siena, and was the pupil of Ventura Salimbeni and of Cristofo ...

, was a pupil of Cavalière

Cristoforo Roncalli Cristoforo Roncalli (c. 1552–1626) was an Italian mannerist painter. He was one of the three painters known as ''Pomarancio'' or ''Il Pomarancio''. Life Roncalli was born in Pomarance, a town near Volterra. His training occurred in ...

. 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 , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption ...

. 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

Works

*''Assumption of the Virgin'', fresco *''Trinity'', Santa Maria in Via Lata church, Rome *''Life of a Virgin'' and ''Assumption'', Santa Maria dei Monti church, Rome *''Annunciation'', parish church,

Montieri Montieri is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Grosseto in the Italian region Tuscany, located about south of Florence and about north of Grosseto. Among the churches in the town is the 14th-century church of Santi Michele e Paolo w ...

*''Annunciation'' (1630), San Francesco (St. Francis) Basilica, Siena *''View of the City of Grosseto'',

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References

* 1588 births 1661 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub