Stefano Cassiani
Padre Stefano Cassiani (9 March 1636 - 15 February 1714) was an Italian painter of the Baroque.
Biography[]
He was also called Il Certosino (the Carthusian) by virtue of being a monk of that order. He was born Baldassare Cassiani (al seculo) in Ansano, near Pescaglia in what is now province of Lucca.[1] He followed the style of Pietro da Cortona and Filippo Gherardi.
He painted frescoes for the church of San Paolino in Lucca. He began painting at the Certosa of Farneta under . He painted in fresco the cupola of the church of abbey, as well as two altar-pieces, representing subjects from the Life of the Virgin. Other churches of his order at Pisa and Siena, contained works by him.
References[]
- Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 247.
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- ^ Encyclopedia Trecanni, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 21 (1978), entry by Anchise Tempestini.
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