Pier Francesco (Il Ticinese) Mola - Artist Info

About Pier Francesco (Il Ticinese) Mola

  • Biography

    Pier Francesco Mola, called Il Ticinese (9 February 1612 - 13 May 1666) was an Italian painter of the High Baroque*, mainly active around Rome.

    Mola was born at Coldrerio (now in Ticino, Switzerland). At the age of four, he moved to Rome with his father Giovanni Battista, a painter. 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.

    His early training was with the late mannerist* painter Cavalier D'Arpino, and he worked under the classicizing Francesco Albani.

    His masterpiece is the fresco* in the gallery of Alexander VII in the Quirinal Palace Gallery, entitled Joseph Making Himself Known to his Brethren (16...

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