Giulio Quaglio the Elder
Illustration — Self Portrait of the Artist Painting his Wife Giulio Quaglio the Elder (1610–1658 or after) was an Italian painter of frescoes. He was a follower of Tintoretto. He is known to have worked in Vienna, Salzburg, and Ljubljana.
Giulio Quaglio the Elder
Giulio Quaglio I (Laino 1601-1658 Mannheim / Munich) · Sotheby's New York, 27 January 2012, N08826, lot 433 · Public domain
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- Giulio Quaglio the Elder was born on 1 January 1610. · Laino.
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- painter · architect
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Illustration — Self Portrait of the Artist Painting his Wife Giulio Quaglio the Elder (1610–1658 or after) was an Italian painter of frescoes. He was a follower of Tintoretto. He is known to have worked in Vienna, Salzburg, and Ljubljana.
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Giulio Quaglio the Elder was an architect and painter. Born in Laino, the architect died in Vienna.
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His son, Giulio Quaglio the Younger, was born in Laino and established himself in the Friuli about the end of the 17th century. Giulio the Younger, who died in 1720, is best known for his frescoes at the chapel of the Monte di Pietà, in Udine. They are both part of a large family of artists and architects from the town of Laino, between Lake Lugano and Lake Como, and which included Giuseppe Quaglio and his sons Lorenzo the Younger, Simon, and Domenico; Lorenzo Quaglio the Elder; and Giovanni Maria Quaglio the Elder and his son.
On origins, the institutional record states the following. Elder died in 1658 at Vienna. Institutional cataloguing adds that giulio Quaglio the Elder was born in 1610 at Laino.
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