Pier Francesco Mola

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Pier Francesco Mola: Self-Portrait ( Uffizi Gallery )
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Pier Francesco Mola (baptized February 9, 1612 in Coldrerio , Ticino , † May 13, 1666 in Rome ) was a Roman baroque painter who came from Ticino .

Life

Pier Francesco Mola's father Giovanni Battista was an architect who moved to Rome from Ticino in 1616. Pier Francesco Mola was trained in painting by Giuseppe Cesari . Little is known of his career in the early years of his career. From 1633 he accompanied his father in his work in northern Italy and worked for a long time in Venice and Bologna and took up the developments in painting. In 1637 he drew the painter and etcher Pietro Testa in Lucca . In 1641 he was commissioned to paint three frescoes in the Oratorio Madonna del Carmelo in his birthplace . For two years he was assistant to Francesco Albani in Bologna .

He returned in 1647 finally returned to Rome, where he worked in the household of the family of Cardinal Camillo Pamphilj , nephew of Pope Innocent X , entered. It is possible that he executed frescoes in the family palace of the Pamphilj in Nettuno in 1651/52 . He was one of the artists who were supposed to paint the huge Palazzo Doria Pamphilj in Valmontone , but in 1659 got into lengthy legal disputes with the princely client because of the execution, which he finally lost in 1664.

In 1656 Mola was commissioned by Pope Alexander VII for the Fresco Joseph reveals himself to his brothers in the Sala Gialla of the Quirinal Palace , which is now considered to be his main work. One of his clients was Christina of Sweden , who had been in Rome since 1655 after converting to Catholicism. He was unable to accept an invitation to the French court to accompany Cardinal Flavio Chigi due to illness.

Mola was accepted into the Accademia di San Luca artists' guild in 1655 , but he only held the office of princeps for one year in 1662/63, where his illness also prevented him.

In addition to Rome, paintings by Mola can also be found in the large picture galleries in London, New York and Los Angeles; the Louvre has collected his drawings, but are mainly in the holdings of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , whose founder Lambert Krahe acquired his art objects in Italy in 1778 had sold to the Bergische estates , including a bundle of drawings by Molas.

literature

  • Federica Bianchi: Pier Francesco Mola. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 4, 2008 , accessed January 17, 2020 .
  • Sonja Brink; Michael Matile: Mola and his contemporaries: Roman drawings from the collection of the Art Academy in the Museum Kunst Palast Düsseldorf. On the occasion of the exhibition “Mola and his contemporaries. Roman drawings from the collection of the Art Academy in the Museum Kunst Palast Düsseldorf ”in the graphic collection of the ETH Zurich (November 14, 2007 - January 18, 2008). Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2007.
  • Sonja Brink: Disegnatore virtuoso: the drawings of Pier Francesco Mola and his circle. Exhibition: Museum Kunst-Palast, Düsseldorf, July 13–22. September 2002. Wienand, Cologne 2002.
  • Laura Damiani Cabrini: Pier Francesco Mola (1612–1666): Pinacoteca cantonale Giovanni Züst, Rancate, [from April 1, 2012 to January 13, 2013]. Pinacoteca cantonale Giovanni Züst, Rancate 2012.
  • Jean Genty: Pier Francesco Mola Pittore. Edizioni Trelingue, Lugano-Porza 1976.
  • Ann Sutherland Harris: Pier Francesco Mola. In: The Dictionary of Art . 1996, Volume 21, pp. 806-809.
  • Francesco Petrucci: Pier Francesco Mola (1612–1666): materia e colore nella pittura del '600. Roma: Bozzi, 2012.
  • Hermann Voss : Mola, Pier Francesco . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 28-29 .
  • Jörg Zutter: “Fruitful and lively genius”. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 22, 2013, p. 27.

Web links

Commons : Pier Francesco Mola  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Jörg Zutter: "Fertile and lively genius". In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 22, 2013, p. 27
  2. ↑ a b The Dictionary of Art. 1996, pp. 806-809.
  3. ^ A b Hermann Voss: Mola, Pier Francesco . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 28-29 .
  4. ↑ Sonja Brink: Disegnatore virtuoso. 2002, p. 18.
  5. ↑ Sonja Brink: Disegnatore virtuoso. 2002, p. 19.
  6. ↑ Sonja Brink: Disegnatore virtuoso. 2002, p. 20.
  7. ↑ Sonja Brink: Disegnatore virtuoso. 2002, p. 28.
personal data
SURNAME Mola, Pier Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1612
PLACE OF BIRTH Coldrerio , Ticino
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1666
Place of death Rome