Salvatore Monosilio
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Salvatore Monosilio was an Italian painter of the 18th century, active in a late-
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style in
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.


Biography

He was born and had initial training in
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,
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. But traveled to Rome to be a pupil of
Sebastiano Conca Sebastiano Conca (8 January 1680 – 1 September 1764) was an Italian painter. Biography He was born at Gaeta, then part of the Kingdom of Naples, and apprenticed in Naples under Francesco Solimena. In 1706, along with his brother Giovanni, wh ...
. He remained in Rome, painting the ceiling of a chapel in the church of
San Paolo alla Regola San Paolo alla Regola, a church in the Regola area of Rome, was made a titular church#Cardinal-deaconries, cardinalate deaconry by Pope Pius XII in 1946. Its present Cardinal-Deacon, since 21 November 2010, is Francesco Monterisi, archpriest eme ...
. For the School of the Padre Pie, he painted a St Giuseppe Calasanzio receives stigmata. He painted a San
Pasquale Baylon Pasquale is a masculine Italian given name and a surname found all over Italy. It is a cognate of the French name Pascal, the Spanish Pascual, the Portuguese Pascoal and the Catalan Pasqual. Pasquale derives from the Latin ''paschalis'' or ...
for the third chapel in the church of Santi Quaranta Martiri e San Pasquale Baylon. He also painted in Ascoli Piceno. He restored some portraits of popes in the Vatican collections under the direction of the canon Marangoni. He sent to Messina two canvases for the Jesuits and a depiction of the titular saint for San Andrea Avellino. His works were incised by
Michele Sorello Michele () is an Italian male given name, akin to the English male name Michael. Michele (usually pronounced ), is also an English female given name that is derived from the French Michèle. It is a variant spelling of the more common (and iden ...
.Memorie de' pittori messinesi e degli esteri che in Messina fiorirono.
by Gaetano Grano and Philipp Hackert, Presso Giuseppe Papalardo, Messina (1821), page 224-225.


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1691 births 1743 deaths Painters from Messina 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub