# Adamo Chiusole

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Count '''Adamo Chiusole''' (1728 - 1787) was an Italian painter and art historian. He mainly painted subjects with animals, landscapes and capricci.<ref>{{cite book | first= Gottardo |last= Garollo | year=1907| title= ''Dizionario biografico universale'' | editor= Ulrico Hoepli| page= [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Dqc8AQAAIAAJ/page/n537 526] | publisher= Editore Libraio della Real Casa, Milan| id= | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Dqc8AQAAIAAJ | authorlink= }}</ref>

==Biography==
He was born in Chiusole, a neighborhood of [Pomarolo](/source/Pomarolo) in the [Vallagarina](/source/Vallagarina), in the Province of [Trentino](/source/Trentino), region of [Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol](/source/Trentino-Alto_Adige%2FS%C3%BCdtirol).<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=pQ8uAQAAIAAJ Continuazione al Nuovo dizionario istorico degli uomini che sono renduti più celebre], Volume 3, by Gioacchino Maria Olivier-Poli, page 36.</ref> He studied first in [Siena](/source/Siena), then in Rome under [Pompeo Battoni](/source/Pompeo_Battoni). In Rome, he resided in the Palazzo of the gran contestabile Lorenzo [Colonna](/source/Colonna_family), his fellow pupil. He then gained the patronage of Cardinal [Scipione Borghese](/source/Scipione_Borghese). He was named Count of the Holy Palace and Knight of the [Order of the Golden Spur](/source/Order_of_the_Golden_Spur) by Pope [Benedict XIV](/source/Benedict_XIV). Chiusole turned down and offer to be the inspector of the Royal Gallery of Berlin under [Frederick the Great](/source/Frederick_the_Great) of Prussia. He did publish a book praising the King.

In addition, to painting, he was versatile as a writer of both prose and poetry. He is described as having a ''clear style but without energy''. He is described as praising his own works, both written and painted, as better than his contemporaries.<ref>''il suo stile era chiarissimo, ma senza energia.''</ref>

==Literary works==
*''Componimenti pratici sopra la pittura trionfante'' (Siena, 1751)
*''Il perfetto modello del valor militare raffigurato nella Maestà di Federico III Re di Prussia'' (Rovereto, 1778)
*''Componimento drammatico in lode di [Caterina II Imperatrice di tutte le Russie](/source/Catherine_the_Great)'' (Rovereto, 1784) 
*''Componimento per il felice arrivo ai suoi feudi del conte Cesare da Castelbarco'' 
*''Componimenti poetici per il tenente maresciallo Giancarlo Partini''
*''Componimento poetico per [Benedetto XIV](/source/Pope_Benedict_IV)''
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=-GEDAAAAQAAJ Le pitture, sculture ed. architetture più rare di Roma]  (Vicenza, 1782)
*''[https://books.google.com/books?id=eT4GAAAAQAAJ Itinerario delle pitture, sculture ed architetturre più rare di molte città d Italia]''
*''Della vita nobile e cavalleresca'' (Vicenza, 1782)
*''Lettera ad un amico sopra il villaggio di Chiusole'' (Verona, 1785)
*''Lettera ad un amico Sopra l'Onore''
*''Lettera Sopra il teatro delle piccole città'';
*''Notizie antiche e moderne della [Valle Lagarina](/source/Lagarina_Valley)'' in supplement to the history of Rovereto by Tartarotti (Verona, 1785).
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=rxwTAAAAQAAJ ''Dell'arte pittorica'': libri VIII]. (1768).

His biography was noted by [Clementino Vannetti](/source/Clementino_Vannetti) (Commentariolum de Adamo Clusolo. Veronae, 1787).<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kx4sAAAAYAAJ Scrittori ed artisti trentini], by Francesco Ambrosi, Giovanni Zippel Editor, 1883, Trento, page 95.</ref>

He died in [Rovereto](/source/Rovereto).

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