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Born in a well-known family of artists, Domenico Piola became one of the most famous Genoese painters of the second half of the 17th century, a time in which the splendour of the city contributed to the development of an important school of painting. Piola began to learn the trade with his brother Pellegro at the early age of seven, and around the year 1650 reached artistic maturity in a style characterised by compositions filled with theatrical effects and marked diagonal lines, influenced by the painting of Giulio Cesare Procaccini. Piola's abundant production, most of which is kept in Genoa, includes easel paintings, prints and drawings, together with decorative ensembles of fresco painting in palaces, some of which (such as those in his house and workshop, Casa Piola) were destroyed in the bombing of the city by the fleet of Louis XIV, king of France, in 1684.
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