Gaspare Serenario
Italian painter
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| Intro | Italian painter | |
| A.K.A. | Gasparo Serenario Gaspero Serenari Palermitano Gasparo Serenari Gaspare Serenari Gaspero Serenari di Palermo | |
| A.K.A. | Gasparo Serenario Gaspero Serenari Palermitano Gasparo Serenari Gaspare Serenari Gaspero Serenari di Palermo | |
| Places | Italy | |
| was | Painter | |
| Work field | Arts | |
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| Birth | 1 January 1694, Palermo, Province of Palermo, Sicily, Italy | |
| Death | 1 January 1759Palermo, Province of Palermo, Sicily, Italy (aged 65 years) |
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Gaspare Serenario (Palermo, Sicily 1707-1759) was an Italian painter, active mainly in a grand late Baroque style.
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As a youth, he moved to Rome, where he lived for over thirty years. Along with the fellow Sicilian Olivio Sozzi, Serenario trained under Sebastiano Conca, then the pre-eminent studio in Rome. Serenario was named knight of the Order of the Congregazione Pontificia dei Virtuosi al Pantheon. He returns to Palermo where he completes the cycle of decorations for the church of Santa Rosalia and completes fresoces for Palazzo Mazzarino. He was nominated director of the mosaics of the Cappella Palatina.