Paolo Pagani (22 September 1655 – 5 May 1716) also known as Paolo Antonio Pagani or Paolo Pagano, was an Italian Baroque/Mannerism painter of the 17th century.
Pagani was born in Valsolda, now a municipality in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located not quite 60 kilometres (37 mi) north of Milan and bordering Switzerland. In 1667 he moved to Venice, where he made a series of ten aquatints from works by Giuseppe Diamantini (1621–1705). In 1675 he painted the Martyrdom of St. Erasmus. The painting was exhibited at Palazzo Molin, and is currently located in the National Gallery of Spinola in Genoa. In 1690 he was invited to Vienna by the Emperor Leopold I.
In 1696 he returned to Valsolda where he frescoed what is considered his masterwork: the nave of the parish church of San Martino. The work, completed the year of the birth of Tiepolo, who would master the art of the luminous fresco, astounds following the use of proficient colors and swirling sotto in su slant as a fresco technique. Michela Catalano, in an open about Pagani upon the Lombardia Beni Culturali website, states:
Pagani died in Milan upon 5 May 1716. His former home in Valsolda has been converted in a museum dedicated to his do something in 2004.
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