Pasquale Chiesa (c. 1630 – September 1654) 

• Was an Italian painter.
• Born in Génova.
• Known for religious works.
• Active in the seventeenth century and documented in Rome.

• One of Chiesa's main patrons was Camillo Pamphilj, who commissioned several paintings from him that were made between 1645 and 1652.

• He also had other Roman patrons, as evidenced by the inventories of the collections of Pietro Paolo Avila, Cardinal Antonio Barberini, the Chevalier Petrucci and Paolo Falconieri.

• In addition to history painting, Chiesa also practiced the landscape and still life genres in collaboration with other artists such as Gaspard Dughet and Alexander Coosemans.

• He has notably created the figures for several landscapes by Jan Baptist Weenix.

• Chiesa would have prematurely died in September 1654, if it is indeed of him that a letter from Salvator Rosa to his Pisan friend Giovan Battista Ricciardi speaks.

• In it, Rosa deplores the recent death, due to a "change of air" between Albano and Rome, of a promising 24-year-old artist who had produced four paintings for Ricciardi.

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