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Santa Maria Di Caravaggio, Naples
The Church of Santa Maria di Caravaggio is a Baroque Catholic church located on Piazza Dante, in Naples, Italy. Construction was begun in 1627 under the patronage of Felice Pignella, and dedicated to the Holy Mary of Caravaggio, a small town in the Province of Bergamo. This attribution of Mary recalls an apparition of the Virgin in 1432. The church was first attached to the Piarists, a religious order dedicated to teaching, and later to the Barnabites. In 1873, it became property of the Prince of Naples Institute for Blind Children ( it, Instituto Principe di Napoli per giovani non vedenti). The architect who helped complete the work was Giovan Battista Nauclerio. The dome was restored in 1846 by Michele Stellati. The main altarpiece contains a painting entitled ''The Birth of Mary'', painted by Gaetano Gigante. The chapels to the right have paintings of ''St Joseph'' by Francesco Solimena, an anonymous ''Madonna della Provvidenza'', and a ''Deposition'' by Domenico Antonio Va ...
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Baroque Architecture
Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the early 17th century and gradually spread across Europe. It was originally introduced by the Catholic Church, particularly by the Jesuits, as a means to combat the Reformation and the Protestant church with a new architecture that inspired surprise and awe. It reached its peak in the High Baroque (1625–1675), when it was used in churches and palaces in Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Bavaria and Austria. In the Late Baroque period (1675–1750), it reached as far as Russia and the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in Latin America. About 1730, an even more elaborately decorative variant called Rococo appeared and flourished in Central Europe. Baroque architects took the basic elements of Renaissance architecture, including domes and colonnades, and made them higher, grander, more decorated, and more dramatic. The interior effects were often achieved with the use of ''quadratura'', or ...
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Gaetano Gigante
Gaetano Gigante (1770 in Naples – 1840) was an Italian painter and engraver, active mainly in Naples, Italy. He was the father of Giacinto Gigante, one of the main painters of the School of Posillipo, Emilia Gigante and Ercole Gigante (1815–1860); and Achille Gigante (1823–1846), a lithographer and designer of acquaforte. Gaetano received his training with Giacinto Diano Giacinto Diano or Diana (28 March 1731 – 13 August 1803) was an Italian painter, active in Southern Italy in a style that mixes Rococo and Neoclassicism. Life Giacinto was born in Pozzuoli, and died in Naples. He trained in the studio of France .... Sources *Derived from Italian Wikipedia 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 19th-century Italian painters 19th-century Italian male artists Painters from Naples 18th-century Neapolitan people 1770 births 1840 deaths 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub ...
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Baroque Architecture In Naples
The Baroque (, ; ) is a Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including the Iberian Peninsula it continued, together with new styles, until the first decade of the 19th century. It followed Renaissance art and Mannerism and preceded the Rococo (in the past often referred to as "late Baroque") and Neoclassicism, Neoclassical styles. It was encouraged by the Catholic Church as a means to counter the simplicity and austerity of Protestant architecture, art, and music, though Lutheran art#Baroque period, Lutheran Baroque art developed in parts of Europe as well. The Baroque style used contrast, movement, exuberant detail, deep colour, grandeur, and surprise to achieve a sense of awe. The style began at the s ...
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Roman Catholic Churches In Naples
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Giuseppe Bonolis
Giuseppe Bonolis (January 1, 1800 – April 2, 1851) was an Italian painter, known for his portraits and historical canvases. He first trained with Muzio Muzii in Teramo, the city of his birth. He taught Calligraphy in the Royal College of Teramo, but in 1820 he was dismissed because he was suspected of seditious Carboneria connections. He moved to Naples in 1822, where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts, and studied under Giuseppe Cammarano. He became a teacher in various schools in that city. He married in 1832 one of his pupils Adelaide Mazza. Among his works are a ''Death of Abel'' (1837) displayed at the 1837 Exhibition of Fine Arts in Naples. ''Infancy of Bacchus'' and ''Marriage of Bacchus and Ariadne'' were exhibited both in 1841. Among his other canvases are ''The four gifts of Poets'' ; an ''Immaculate Conception'' for the private chapel of the Marchese Tommasi; ''St Paul''; ''Solon in the Aereopagus''; ''Coriolanus near the Volsci''; and a ''Charon transporting sou ...
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Errico Giovine
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Francis Xavier Bianchi
Francis Xavier Mary Bianchi ( it, Francesco Saverio Maria Bianchi; ) (December 2, 1743 – January 31, 1815), was an Italian Barnabite priest and noted scholar, who also gained a reputation for sanctity during his lifetime from both his commitment to his students and to the poor of Naples. He has been proclaimed a saint by the Catholic Church and declared the Apostle of the city. Life Early life Bianchi was born in 1743 in Arpino in the Lazio region, then part of the Papal States, into a loving and pious family. His mother taught him to care for the poor around them, giving him example by setting up a small clinic in the family home where she would nurse up to 16 needy people. He was, nevertheless, far from a standard pious child. He would later confess to how he would occasionally pilfer money from his parents. What changed Bianchi's life was a slow and steady resolve to conquer his own will. As he grew older, he felt that he might have a religious calling. Despite their own f ...
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Luigi Scorrano
Luigi Scorrano (June 1849 – June 15, 1924) was an Italian painter who won many awards and was given a pension by the Italian government. Career Born at Lecce in Apulia, Scorrano studied at the Academy of Naples and became a prolific artist, often exhibiting his work at the National Expositions and Promotrici. For example, at the Promotrice of Naples, he exhibited: ''How Many Sad Memories!'' and ''Teliclio''. He exhibited at Livorno ''Una canzone d' amore''; at Genoa ''Una canzone''; in Naples ''La toelette di nozze''; in Rome ''Baptism of Montecassino''; ''Rebecca''; ''L'Ambasciata dì matrimonio'' (once found in the Ministry of Justice of Rome); ''I regali alla sposa''; and ''Un Racconto'', once found in the Hall of the Provincial Council of Naples with a reproduction of the ''Baptism of Montecassino''; ''Gioie intime'', exhibited at Milan; ''Conforto e lavoro'', exhibited at Venice. In the Council Hall of the town of Terlizzi in the Province of Bari, he painted allegori ...
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Domenico Antonio Vaccaro
Domenico Antonio Vaccaro (June 3, 1678 – June 13, 1745) was an Italian painter, sculptor and architect. He created many important sculptural and architectural projects in Naples. His later works are executed in an individualistic Rococo style.Alexander Kader and Antonia Boström. "Vaccaro." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 7 Jun. 2016 Life Domenico Antonio Vaccaro was born in Naples as the son of Lorenzo Vaccaro. His father Lorenzo was a pupil of Cosimo Fanzago. Domenico Antonio Vaccaro first studied under his father. He subsequently trained in the workshop of Francesco Solimena. He initially dedicated himself to painting but from around 1707 he appears to have practised almost exclusively as a sculptor and architect. In the 1730s he resumed painting. Works of interest include a statue of ''Moses'' in the church of San Ferdinando, interior work at the Chiesa di Santa Maria in Portico, and the statues of ''Penitence'' and ''Solitude' ...
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Francesco Solimena
Francesco Solimena (4 October 1657 – 3 April 1747) was a prolific Italian painter of the Baroque era, one of an established family of painters and draughtsmen. Biography Francesco Solimena was born in Canale di Serino in the province of Avellino. He received early training from his father, Angelo Solimena, with whom he executed a ''Paradise'' for the cathedral of Nocera (a place where he spent a big part of his life) and a ''Vision of St. Cyril of Alexandria'' for the church of San Domenico at Solofra. He settled in Naples in 1674, where he worked in the studio of Francesco di Maria.Pavone, Mario Alberto (2003, January 1). "Solimena family". Grove Art Online. He was patronized early on, and encouraged to become an artist by Cardinal Vincenzo Orsini (later Pope Benedict XIII). By the 1680s, he had independent fresco commissions, and his active studio came to dominate Neapolitan painting from the 1690s through the first four decades of the 18th century. He modeled his ...
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Piazza Dante, Naples
Piazza Dante is a large public square in Naples, Italy, named after the poet Dante Alighieri. The square is dominated by a 19th-century statue of the poet Dante, sculpted by Tito Angelini. Overview Originally it was called Largo del Mercatello, since there was held, since 1588, one of the two markets of the city, differing with the diminutive “Mercatello” from the largest and oldest of Piazza del Mercato. A further importance was the "official" opening of Port'Alba in 1625, official because the population had created an abusive brick in the wall to facilitate communications with the villages, in particular with that of the Avvocata which was rapidly enlarging. The square assumed its current structure in the second half of the eighteenth century, with the intervention of the architect Luigi Vanvitelli; the "Foro Carolino" commissioned by him was to constitute a monument celebrating the sovereign Carlo III di Borbone. The works lasted from 1757 to 1765, and the result wa ...
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