Pier Francesco Mola
Paintings
David With The Head Of Goliath
Bacchus Overseeing The Crushing Of Grapes By His Satyrs
Flora And The Infant Bacchus In A Wooded Landscape
Saint Francis Receiving The Stigmata
Saint Andrew Head And Shoulders
Saint Joseph Reading A Book And Holding A Flowering Staff
Erminia Carving The Name Of Tancred On A Tree
Saint John the Baptist preaching in the Wilderness
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Drawings
Circle of Pier Francesco Mola
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Pier Francesco Mola, called Il Ticinese (9 February 1612 – 13 May 1666) was an Italian painter of the High Baroque, mainly active around Rome.
Biography
Mola was born at Coldrerio (now in Ticino, Switzerland). [1] At the age of four, he moved to Rome with his father Giovanni Battista, a painter.[1] With the exception of the years 1633–40 and 1641–47, during which he resided in Venice and Bologna, respectively, he lived for the rest of his life in Rome.[1]
His early training was with the late mannerist painter Cavalier d'Arpino, and he worked under the classicizing Francesco Albani.[1]
His masterpiece is the fresco in the gallery of Alexander VII in the Quirinal Palace Gallery, entitled Joseph making himself known to his Brethren (1657).[2] He made six versions of The Flight into Egypt, the earliest and best of which is the first one, The Rest on the Flight into Egypt.
He was elected Principe of the Accademia di San Luca, the Roman artists' professional association, in 1662, but his last years were neither profitable nor prolific. Among his pupils were Jean-Baptiste Forest, Antonio Gherardi, and Giuseppe Bonati.
With his looser style and handling, more naturalistic palette, and interest in exploring landscape elements, Mola differs from the prevailing, highly-theoretical classicism of such leading 17th-century Roman painters as Andrea Sacchi.
Notes
Ecstasy in the Wilderness: Pier Francesco Mola's "The Vision of Saint Bruno" , Dawson W. Carr, The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, Vol. 19 (1991), 99.
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Sources
Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Pelican History of Art, ed. Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. pp. 323–325 Penguin Books Ltd.
Pier Francesco Mola 1612 - 1666, Electa 1989, Lugano, Museo Cantonale d'Arte
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