Guglielmo Caccia (known as Moncalvo) and his school

Guglielmo Caccia, called Moncalvo, was the most important painter of the seventeenth-century in Piedmont. He was greatly influenced by the artists of the XVI century. Moncalvo lived in Chieri from 1600 to 1610 where he produced some altar pieces and two wall paintings while at the same time he was also in Turin involved in decorating the Carlo Emanuele I Great Gallery. Around 1615 he was commissioned by the Prior Giacinto Broglia to decorate the church of San Domenico. He painted the apse of the church and two large canvases, the altar pieces in the Cathedral, in the churches of San Michele Arcangelo and Santa Margherita, and the chapel of the monastery of the Clarisse nuns. Other altar pieces were painted by his daughter Orsola Maddalena and his two main disciples Francesco Fea and Giovanni Crosio.