Sebastiano Guala was an Italian

Italy

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 church architect

Architect

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 active between 1640–1680 in the area of Casale Monferrato

Casale Monferrato

Casale Monferrato, population 36,058, is a town and comune in the Piedmont region of north-west Italy, part of the province of Alessandria. It is situated about 60 km east of Turin on the right bank of the Po, where the river runs at the foot of the Montferrato hills. Beyond the river lies the...

, then capital of the Gonzaga

House of Gonzaga

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-ruled state of Montferrat

Montferrat

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. He was born into a prominent family of Frassinello Monferrato

Frassinello Monferrato

Frassinello Monferrato is a comune in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 50 km east of Turin and about 25 km northwest of Alessandria....

 and became a canon

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 of the Collegiata di Santa Maria di Piazza in Casale.See . (Santa Maria di Piazza, demolished in the nineteenth century, stood in what is now the eastern part of Piazza Mazzini.) It has been thought probable that he belonged to the same family as the Casalese painter

Painting

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 Pier Francesco Guala

Pier Francesco Guala

Pier Francesco Guala , also known as Pierfrancesco and Pietro Francesco, was an eighteenth-century Italian painter active for the most part in the region of his place of birth, Casale Monferrato....

 (1698–1757).

Works

Churches attributed to Guala include:
At Frassinello

The chapel of San Bernardo, of unplastered brick and located in the open countryside.

The chiesa parocchiale dell’Assunta, rebuilt by Guala in 1650/60.

At Casale

San Giuseppe in Via Lanza.

Santo Stefano (1653) in Piazza Santo Stefano.

San Filippo in Via Biblioteca.

Santa Maria sulle Mura (also Madonna di Pompei and La Madonnina) in Viale Morozzo, with a secondary entrance from Via Saletta, was built in 1675 to contain a fresco of the Madonna upon which ‘miraculous’ tears had been observed. The image, which also depicts the infant Jesus and Saint Evasio, was painted in 1615 by Selvino Bolognesi.

At Pozzo Sant’Evasio

The small church of Pozzo Sant’Evasio, near Casale, was built in 1666/1670 on the site of the miraculous fountain of Saint Evasio to commemorate a 1640 victory over the Spanish

Spain

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forces which were besieging Casale. The patron was Giovanni Domenico Polatto, president of the senate at Casale.