Sebastiano Folli

Italian painter

Sebastiano Folli (1568–1621) was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance period. He was a scholar of Alessandro Casolano, and a native of Siena. He distinguished himself by several frescoes in the churches at Siena, particularly the cupola of Santa Marta, and some subjects from the Life of St. Sebastian, in the church of that saint, painted in competition with Rutilio Manetti, to whose pictures they are in no way inferior. He visited Rome, and was employed in some considerable works for the Cardinal de' Medici, afterwards Leo XI. He died in 1621.

Works

In Siena

Basilica of San Domenico
- Mystical Marriage of St Catherine of Alexandria (1609)
Casa Mensini:
- Four Evangelists (1619), fresco
- Glory and Triumph of Saint Lucia (1612), fresco
Church of San Pietro a Ovile:
- Famiglie di Gesù e di San Giovannino (1614)
Church of San Raimondo al Refugio:^[1]
- Gesù restituisce l’abito del povero a Santa Caterina
- St Catherine of Siena gives her coat to the poor
San Sebastiano:
- Glory of St. Sebastian with Virtue and Angels (1606)
Convent of Santa Marta:
- Santa Cecilia che suona (1615), in collaboration with Pietro Sorri
Convento delle Sperandie (Monastero delle Trafisse):
- Immacolata e santi (1605)
- Adoration of the Shepherds (1605), fresco
- Annunciation (1605), fresco
- Visitation (1605), fresco
Sant'Anna in Sant'Onofrio
- Morte di Sant'Onofrio (Death of Saint Arnulf)
Palazzo Piccolomini alla Postierla (Quattro Cantoni):
- Vision of St Sabinus (c. 1617)
Palazzo Pubblico
- Emperor Charles V Renewing the University Privileges in Siena (Council Hall, v. 1598)
- Virgin in Glory (new council hall)
- Madonna and child with Angels (third hall)
- Madonna of the Rosary (third hall, v. 1606)
- Martyrdom of St Sebastian (third hall, v. 1606)
Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena:
- Madonna and child with St Savino (1612), 35th hall
Santa Caterina Sanctuary, Oratorio della Tintoria, frescoes (1607)
- Mission of Catherine to Pope Gregory XI at Avignon
- Catherine brings about Reconciliation with Florentines
- Return of Catherine to Florence
Santa Maria della Scala:
- St Caterina da Siena (c. 1610)

In other places

Pietà e Santi, Santa Croce church, Abbadia San Salvatore^[2]
Madonna col Bambino che consegna le chiavi a San Pietro, San Biagio church, Castiglione d'Orcia
Annunciazione (Annunciation), Lucignano Communal Museum, first hall, Lucignano^[3]
Martirio di Santa Caterina d’Alessandria (Martyr of St. Catherine of Alexandria), Santa Caterina delle Ruote (1607), Radicondoli^[4]

Notes

^ Fondazione Conservatori Riuniti : Chiesa di San Raimondo al Refugio, retrieved on 19 September 2011 Archived 26 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian)
^ I Luoghi della Fede in Regione Toscana : Chiesa di San Biagio, retrieved on 5 November 2011 (in Italian)
^ lucignano.com in Museo Comunale di Lucignano, retrieved on 5 November 2011 Archived 20 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian)
^ Official website of the Commune of Radicondoli at the Chiesa di Santa Caterina delle Ruote and Monastero Agostiniano, retrieved on 5 November 2011 (in Italian)

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sebastiano Folli.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Folli, Sebastiano". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.