Sebastiano Guala was an Italian church architect active between 1640 and 1680 in the area of Casale Monferrato, then capital of the Gonzaga-ruled state of Montferrat. He was born into a prominent family of Frassinello Monferrato and became a canon 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 probableThe kinship is suggested in , pointing to the rarity of Guala as a family name in the baptismal records in Casale. that he belonged to the same family as the Casalese painter Pier Francesco Guala (1698–1757).
Works Churches attributed to Guala include: At FrassinelloSee for photographs and short descriptions of the churches at Frassinello. The chapel of San Bernardo, of unplastered brick and located in the open countryside. has a photograph of the chapel near the foot of the page. 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 forces which were besieging Casale. The patron was Giovanni Domenico Polatto, president of the senate at Casale.See ; ; and .
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