Pier Francesco Mola

1612–1666 · Baroque

Pier Francesco Mola, called Il Ticinese was an Italian painter of the High Baroque, mainly active around Rome. His masterpiece as a fresco painter is widely considered to be the fresco in the gallery of Alexander VII in the Quirinal Palace Gallery, entitled Joseph making himself known to his Brethren (1657). However, Mola is considered to have been better as a painter of small pictures, especially landscapes. With his looser style and handling, more naturalistic palette, and interest in exploring landscape elements, Mola differs from the prevailing, highly-theoretical classicism of such leading 17th-century Roman painters as Andrea Sacchi.

32 paintings

• Homer Dictating (1660–65)
• Saint John the Baptist preaching
• A man wearing a turban
• Tête d'homme (1650)
• Tête d'homme (1650)
• La mort d'Abel (1637)
• Rest on the Flight
• Landscape with Christ and Two Angels
• Rocky Landscape with Two Carthusian Monks
• Elijah Fed by the Ravens
• Christ and the Woman of Samaria
• The Prodigal Son (1650)
• Reading monk in rocky landscape (1650)
• Diane and Endymion (1660)
• Landskap med Johannes Döparen
• The Assassination of Saint Peter the Martyr (after Titian) (1649)
• Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1650)
• Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness (1657)
• Holy Family in a Landscape (1632)
• The Vision of Saint Bruno (1660)
• Geographer (1650)
• Adoration of the Shepherds (1641)
• Oriental Warrior (1600)
• Erminia Carving Tancred's Name on a Tree (1660)
• St. John the Baptist Preaching in the Desert (1659)
• St. Peter Praying (1650)
• Landscape with Hagar and the Angel (1657)
• The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (ca. 1641)
• Cain Slaying Abel (ca. 1650–52)
• John the Baptist preeching (1601)
• Lille satyr der drikker fra en tønde (1647-1653)
• Saint John the Baptist preaching in the Desert (1650)