You are here: Art > Biography > Italian

Life of DOMENICO PIOLA


 Advertisements

 
  Italian painter, draughtsman, printmaker and designer, part of a family of artists. He was taught to paint by his brother, Pellegro Piola (161740). He later worked in partnership with his younger brother, Giovanni Andrea Piola (1627c. 1713); his three sons Paolo Gerolamo Piola, Anton Maria Piola (16541715) and Giovanni Battista Piola (d 1725); his two sons-in-law, Gregorio de Ferrari and Domenico Parodi; and his brother-in-law Stefano Camogli (fl 166590), a specialist in arabesques of flowers and fruit. From the time of Luca Cambiaso, Genoese ceilings had consisted of rich decorative frescoes surrounded by elaborate ornament. From the latter half of the 17th century and into the early 18th century the Casa Piola came to dominate and unify the production of the various elements involved: quadratura, stucco, sculpture and painting. The workshops eminence in all these media enabled it to achieve an artistic monopoly that partially accounts for the decorative consistency in Genoa in the last half of the century. Large decorative projects were comprehensively prepared through drawings, progressing from careful studies of details through compositional sketches to full-scale cartoons. In their decorative projects featuring illusionistic effects the Casa Piola also designed the quadratura, which, to judge from drawings, was often as important to them as the central section of the vault. They also regarded sculpture as an integral part of the design and supplied designs for sculptors, among them Filippo Parodi, Antonio Maria Maragliano, Bernardo Schiaffino and Francesco Maria Schiaffino.
  Domenico Piola was the leading artist in Genoa in the second half of the 17th century, providing ceiling frescoes for many Genoese churches and palaces and producing paintings for private collectors. He was also a prolific draughtsman, whose many designs for thesis pages and book illustrations promoted his work throughout Europe. The enormous and multifarious productivity of his studio, his numerous collaborations with other artists and the fact that most of his most ambitious projects have been destroyed have discouraged any systematic study of his work.
  
 Advertisements
Janus and Hercule with Peace
click to see full size image
See more details about "Janus and Hercule with Peace"
Magdalene in the Desert
click to see full size image
See more details about "Magdalene in the Desert"
Daedalus and Icarus
click to see full size image
See more details about "Daedalus and Icarus"
Assumption of the Virgin
click to see full size image
See more details about "Assumption of the Virgin"
Vanity
click to see full size image
See more details about "Vanity"
Immaculate Conception
click to see full size image
See more details about "Immaculate Conception"

Pages :  1 

 


If you want write a review , you have to be registered. Login or Sign up / register
 Advertisements

Also see ...

PO, Giacomo del

PODESTA, Giovanni Andrea

POIRIER, Claude

POEL, Egbert van der

POILLY, Fran�ois de



        


 Translation  Spanish  German  French  Italian
 painter  pintor  maler  peintre  pittore
 painting  pintura  Anstrich  peinture  pittura
 paintings  pinturas  Anstriche  peintures  pitture
 biography  biograf�a  Biographie  biographie  biografia
 gallery  galer�a  Galerie  galerie  galleria