Federico or Federigo Maldarelli (October 2, 1826 – December 9, 1893) was an Italian painter born in
Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
.
Biography
His father was a painter, but Maldarelli's first formal training was under
Costanzo Angelini.
He first exhibited at the 1839 Mostre Borboniche, a painting of ''Head of the Holy Virgin''. He participated in this exhibition regularly until 1859. In 1855, he was awarded the third-class gold medal for his ''San Gliceria converte e battezza il suo carceriere'' (in the
Capodimonte Museum
Museo di Capodimonte is an art museum located in the Palace of Capodimonte, a grand House of Bourbon, Bourbon palazzo in Naples, Italy. The museum is the prime repository of Neapolitan painting and decorative art, with several important works ...
). The painting hung next to the famed ''Gl'iconoclasti'' of
Domenico Morelli
Domenico Morelli (4 August 182313 August 1901) was an Italian painter, who mainly produced historical and religious works. Morelli was immensely influential in the arts of the second half of the 19th century, both as director of the Accademia di ...
. Both painters became lifelong friends.
After the 1860s, he painted almost exclusively historical costume scenes of Neo-pompeian subjects. In 1877 at Naples, he exhibited ''Un episodio dell'ultimo giorno di Pompei''. In 1880 at Turin, he exhibited ''Suonatrice pompeiana''; ''Fioraia'', and ''Vestale sepolta viva''. Other paintings include: ''Via di Pompei''; ''Costume romano''; ''Etera pompeiana''.
''Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.''
by Angelo de Gubernatis
Count Angelo De Gubernatis (1840–26 February 1913), Italian man of letters, was born in Turin and educated there and at Berlin, where he studied philology. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature fourteen times.
Life
In 1862 he wa ...
. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, Page 272. One of his pupils was Lilla Maldura
Lilla Maldura (fl. 1876–1887) was a painter, mostly of domestic interiors and church interiors, but also landscapes, in oil and watercolor.
Maldura was born in Naples, of an Italian father and a Spanish mother. She studied under professor Fe ...
.
References
19th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
1826 births
1893 deaths
Painters from Naples
Neo-Pompeian painters
19th-century Italian male artists
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