Angelo Solimena (

Serino Serino is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Avellino, Campania, southern Italy. Famous for its very clean water source, Serino is from Naples, from Salerno, from Avellino and from Rome. Serino is known for its production of chestnuts a ...

, 17 November 1629 –

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, February 1716) was an Italian painter, father of the better known

Francesco Solimena Francesco Solimena (4 October 1657 – 3 April 1747) was a prolific Italian Baroque painter, one of an established family of painters and draughtsmen. Biography Francesco Solimena was born in Canale di Serino in the province of Avellino. H ...

Life

Solimena was a pupil of Francesco Guarino. One of his earliest paintings is the ''Pentecost'', dated 1654, in San Michele in

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, the town in which Guarnino also worked.Painting in Naples, 1983, p.181 Solimena later worked in

, where he painted a ''Deposition'' in the church of San Matteo in 1664, and Gravina, where he painted the ''Madonna and Saints'' in the church of the Purgatorio . In 1674-5 he painted a series of frescoes in the church of San Giorgio in

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, and visited Naples at around the same time. He worked in collaboration with his son, Francesco, on the ''Vision of St Cyril of Alexandria'' at the church of San Domenico in Solofra. He later worked at

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, where he painted the vaults and other pictures at the cathedral.

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