Cristoforo Casolani (c. 1552 – after 1606)Christies Auction house
drawing. was an

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painter, active in Rome in a late-

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Mannerist Mannerism is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, when the Baroque style largely replaced it ...

styles.

Biography

Born in

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, he contributed along with

Giacinto Gimignani Giacinto Gimignani (1606 – 9 December 1681) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Rome, during the Baroque period. He was also an engraver of aquaforte. Biography Gimignani was born in Pistoia, where his father, Alessio (1567–1651) was ...

and

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to the apse ceiling frescoes of the church of

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in Rome.

References

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