Artist: Pier Francesco Mola (1612 - 1666)
Nationality: Italian
Movement: Baroque
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Pier Francesco Mola was the son of an architect. He left Rome to travel in Bologna in Venice between the years of 1633 and 1647 and studied under an assistant of Annibale Carracci and Domenichino. Guernico also influenced him. Mola returned to his home city of Rome in 1647 and began painting in the romantic style using chiaroscuro. He was given commissions for altarpieces and frescoes that brought together elements of the Roman High Renaissance and North Italian art. Mola favored idyllic settings that featured biblical characters or saints. At the end of his career, his paintings became overly dramatic and therefore attracted fewer commissions. A lawsuit drained him financially in 1644, but he was elected the head of the Accademia di San Luca in 1662. He resigned from the position a year later due to failing health.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Pier Francesco Mola, Madonna and Child, 17th century
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Pier Francesco Mola, Rest on the Flight into Egypt, mid 17th century
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Pier Francesco Mola, Tomb in Landscape, 17th century
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Pier Francesco Mola, Bacchus and Ariadne, 17th century
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The Rest on the Flight into Egypt Pier Francesco Mola (North Italian, 1612-1666)Oil on copper;
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Pier Francesco Mola, Conversion of St. Paul and other figures, studies for frescoes in the Ravenna Chapel of Il Ges* in Rome, circa 1656
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The Vision of Saint Bruno
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Iris Appearing to Turnus
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Mola panel (one of five - 1985.22.1-5), 20th century
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Mola panel (one of five - 1985.22.1-5) mostly red, 20th century
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Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Angels Master called Pseudo-Pier
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Mola panel (one of five - 1985.22.1-5) winged deer?, 20th century
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Mola panel (one of five - 1985.22.1-5) birds and fishes, 20th century
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David Alfaro Siqueiros - Strike on the Pier 1954 gouache on board mou Cleveland Museum of Art Mexican
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Claes Oldenburg - Spoon Pier 1975 soft-ground etching, The Mint Museums American
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Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli - The Ecstacy of Saint Francis c. 1615 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art Italian
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Harvey Ellis - Summerville Pier and Lighthouse 1884 watercolor on paper Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Pier Francesco Bissolo - The Holy Family with a Donor in a Landscape early 1520's oil on wood panel Dayton Arts Institute Italian
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Paul Whitman, Pier"s End, 1927
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Herman Volz, Pier 39, 20th century
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Edmund Blampied, Old Pier Head, 1921
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Francis Seymour Haden, Little Calais Pier, 1865
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Francis Seymour Haden, Little Calais Pier, 1865
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Paul Whitman, Cannery Pier, 1927
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Francis Seymour Haden, Little Calais Pier, 1865
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Francis Seymour Haden, Little Calais Pier, 1865
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Francis Seymour Haden, Little Calais Pier, 1865
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Roger Fenton - Harbour at Balaklava, The Cattle Pier, Crimea 1855 salted paper print f The Royal Photographic Society English
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Carl Armin Hansen, The Large Pier, 1925
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Douglas I. Smart, The Pier, 19th - 20th century
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Joseph Nash, The Back of Old Leith Pier, 1847
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Pier Leone Ghezzi, Una Guardia Canterna, 18th century
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David Cox, Grey Day, Calais Pier, 18th - 19th century
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, The Pier: A Grey Note, 1884
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Frances Hammel Gearhart, The Boat Pier, 19th - 20th century
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Pier Leone Ghezzi, Monsieur de la Grenelay, 1749
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Joseph Nash, The Back of Old Leith Pier, 19th century
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Cadwallader Washburn, A Landing Pier (Monterey), 19th - 20th century
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Joseph Pennell, London Bridge Pier, 19th - 20th century
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Horatio Nelson Poole, Pier Sixteen, 1919

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (2)
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Contemporary Art at Castel del Monte - Puglia: IntraMoenia/Extra Art
After the first event that holds Castel del Monte as its centre, a group of additional castles will become ěthe seat, a sort of indian reservation for contemporary artists chosen from a multimedia, multi-cultural, trans-national perspective....
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: Works from Renaissance to 20th-Century Highlight How Artists and their Workshops Used Both Sides of the Sheet
The unusual display allows viewers to trace the creative process as an artist sketched from one side of the sheet to the other, to see how works were copied by assistants in Renaissance workshops, and to understand the increasing shift toward a co...

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