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Casolani, Ilario (or Cristoforo)

an Italian painter, was born at Siena in 1588. He was a son of Alessandro, who instructed him in his art. He finished The Assumption. for the church of San Francesco at Sienna, sketched by his father before his death, and then went to Rome, and executed some fine work in the church of the Madonna de Mouli, The History of the Virgin, and an Ascension; The Trinity in Santa Maria, in Via. He died in 1661. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. G neral, s.v.; Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.