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RECTO: THREE STUDIES OF A WOMAN'S HEAD VERSO: TWO STUDIES OF A WOMAN'S HEAD
Auction: 01/25/2012
Lot: 15
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Alessandro Di Agostino Casolani AUCTION RECORDS
1552 Mensano, Italy - 1607 Sienna, Italy. Known for: Religious chapel and church painting, altarpieces, decoration.
Older than Francesco Vanni and Ventura Salimbeni, Alessandro Casolani shares with them an important position in Sienese painting of the late Mannerist period. As a youth, he befriended the artist... Read full biography
Older than Francesco Vanni and Ventura Salimbeni, Alessandro Casolani shares with them an important position in Sienese painting of the late Mannerist period. As a youth, he befriended the artist Cristofano Roncalli and studied with him in Siena in the 1570s. He was trained in the studio of... Read full biography
Older than Francesco Vanni and Ventura Salimbeni, Alessandro Casolani shares with them an important position in Sienese painting of the late Mannerist period. As a youth, he befriended the artist Cristofano Roncalli and studied with him in Siena in the 1570s. He was trained in the studio of Arcangelo Salimbeni, and received his first independent commission in 1576, for a painting for a chapel in the Duomo in Siena. Casolani accompanied Roncalli to Rome in 1578, but was back in Siena by 1581.... Read full biography
Older than Francesco Vanni and Ventura Salimbeni, Alessandro Casolani shares with them an important position in Sienese painting of the late Mannerist period. As a youth, he befriended the artist Cristofano Roncalli and studied with him in Siena in the 1570s. He was trained in the studio of Arcangelo Salimbeni, and received his first independent commission in 1576, for a painting for a chapel in the Duomo in Siena. Casolani accompanied Roncalli to Rome in 1578, but was back in Siena by 1581. Among his works of this period in Siena is a large painting for the Oratorio di Santa Caterina in Fontebranda and an altarpiece of The Adoration of the Shepherds for the church of Santa Maria dei Servi. Religious works make up the bulk of Casolani's... Read full biography
Older than Francesco Vanni and Ventura Salimbeni, Alessandro Casolani shares with them an important position in Sienese painting of the late Mannerist period. As a youth, he befriended the artist Cristofano Roncalli and studied with him in Siena in the 1570s. He was trained in the studio of Arcangelo Salimbeni, and received his first independent commission in 1576, for a painting for a chapel in the Duomo in Siena. Casolani accompanied Roncalli to Rome in 1578, but was back in Siena by 1581. Among his works of this period in Siena is a large painting for the Oratorio di Santa Caterina in Fontebranda and an altarpiece of The Adoration of the Shepherds for the church of Santa Maria dei Servi. Religious works make up the bulk of Casolani's oeuvre, both in the form of church altarpieces and easel pictures for private patrons, as well as more elaborate projects, such as... Read full biography
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Madonna and Child with Infant St. John the Baptist
Alessandro Di Agostino Casolani Auction: 01/12/1996Lot: 186Subscribe or get free alerts
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Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeMATRIMONIO MISTICO DI SANTA CATERINA E SAN MICHELE ARCANGELO
Alessandro Di Agostino Casolani Auction: 02/13/2018Lot: 208Subscribe or get free alerts
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Kneeling monk. Studies of head and shoulder of a soldier
Alessandro Di Agostino Casolani Auction: 07/03/1989Lot: 79Subscribe or get free alerts
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