Gaspare Serenario
Gaspare Serenario (* 1694 or 1707 in Palermo ; † 1759 ibid) was an Italian Baroque painter from Sicily .
Life
He received his first training from the now largely unknown Martino Susinno in Palermo, then switched to the workshop of Guglielmo Borremans . Around 1730 he went to Rome to the workshop of Sebastiano Conca , whose "Accademia del Nudo" was attended by students from all over Europe. With the beginning of his independent work in Rome, he was appointed on March 1, 1739 as a member of the Congregazione dei Virtuosi al Pantheon. In the following years he worked on frescoes and panel paintings in several Roman churches. On the recommendation of the Archbishop of Cosenza , Michele Maria Capece Galeota , Pope Benedict XIV raised Serenario to the rank of Cavaliere Lateranense and Conte Palatino.
Around 1750 Serenario was back in Palermo and created decorative frescoes for numerous palaces and churches, sometimes in collaboration with Vito D'Anna . After a portrait of the viceroy Eustaquio Laviefuille, the latter raised him to “direttore del mosaico della Palatina”. He died honored in 1759 and was buried in the Chiesa della Gancia in Palermo.
Works
- Chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena de'Pazzi - Cappella di S. Camillo de Lellis (Rome) picture cycle
- Chiesa di S. Maria in Trivio (Rome): paintings
- Chiesa di S. Teresa (Rome): painting with Saints Theresa and John
- Palazzo Conte Federico: ceiling frescoes (together with Vito d´Anna)
- Palazzo Gangi-Valguarnera (Palermo): ceiling frescoes in the hall of mirrors
- Palazzo Mazzarino (Palermo) frescoes on the gallery ceiling.
- Chiesa S. Orsola - Cappella della Pieta (Palermo): Triumph of St. Ursula
- Chiesa San Franceco di Paolo (Palermo): panel paintings around Saint Oliva
- other buildings in Palermo: frescoes in the dome of the Casa Professa and in the Palazzo Orneto
- Chiesa Madre in Palma di Montechiaro (Palma di Montechiaro): altarpiece
- Museo di Castello Ursino : "Triumph of Virtue", design for the ceiling fresco of an unknown palace
literature
- Millard Meiss : The great Age of Fresco. Discoveries, Recoveries ans Survivals. Phaidon Press, London 1970.
- Gaspare Serenario . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 506-507 .
- Rudolf Wittkower : Art and Architecture in Italy 1600 to 1750 (= The Pelican History of Art. Volume 16). 3rd revised edition, reprinted with corrections and augmented bibliography. Penguin Books et al., Harmondsworth 1980, ISBN 0-14-056016-5 .
Web links
- Serenari (o Serenario), Gaspare. In: Enciclopedie on line. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Serenario, Gaspare |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Serenari, Gaspare |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1694 or 1707 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Palermo |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1759 |
| Place of death | Palermo |