Nicola Gliri

Nicola Gliri or Nicolaus Glirus (1630 -1687) was an Italian painter active in Puglia in a Baroque style.

He was born in Bitonto, but his best known works were completed alongside Carlo Rosa for the Basilica di San Nicola in Bari. Both are said to have been pupils of Paolo Finoglio.[1] The work was commissioned by the prior Giovanni Montero (1655-1674) and consisted of six lunettes in the crypt, with one signed 1660.[2]

He also painted a Madonna delle Sette Dolori with Saints Francis of Assisi and Francis Xavier (1684-1686) for the Cathedral of Ruvo.[3]

Among his pupils was Vitantonio De Filippis.[4]

References

  1. ↑ MIBACT - Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo, Bari: in mostra il dipinto di Alessandro Turchi, detto l'Orbetto, raffigurante i Santi Cosma e Damiano, exhibition, lighter notes.
  2. ↑ Website of Basilica, entry on Neapolitan and Puglise Baroque.
  3. ↑ Il Sedente, article on the painting of the Madonna dei Sette Dolori.
  4. ↑ Encyclopedia Treccani, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 33 (1987), entry by Antonio Castellano on De Filippis.
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