Gaspare Serenario
Gaspare Serenario (Palermo, Sicily 1707–1759) was an Italian painter, active mainly in a grand late Baroque style.
Biography
As a youth, he moved to Rome, where he lived for over thirty years. Along with the fellow Sicilian Olivio Sozzi, 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.[1]
He painted an altarpiece depicting the Crucifixion with Mary, St John, and Mary Magdalen (1748) for a chapel of the church of Santa Chiara all'Albergaria.
References
- ↑ Short Biography Deprecated link archived 2013-02-18 at archive.today at Museo del Castello Ursino website.
- 1707 births
- 1759 deaths
- Painters from Palermo
- 18th-century Italian painters
- Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi al Pantheon
- Artists from the Kingdom of Sicily
- Immigrants to the Papal States
- Artists from the Papal States
- 18th-century Italian male painters
- Italian painter, 18th-century birth stubs