Gaetano Bocchetti (10 August 1888 – 1990) was an Italian painter. He was 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 ...

and studied at the

Academy of Fine Arts of Naples The Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli (Naples Academy of Fine Arts) is a university-level art school in Naples. In the past it has been known as the Reale Istituto di Belle Arti and the Reale Accademia di Belle Arti. Founded by King Charles VII o ...

. He participated in a number of exhibitions, including the 1920

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

, the 1921 Quadriennale of Rome, and from 1923 at the national Biennale of Naples. He exhibited at a Florentine exhibition by Sembenelli, in 1926 at the Quadriennale of Turin, and gained the premio Cremona in 1935–36, the premio Michetti in 1965, and the premio Posillipo in 1965. San Giuseppe da Copertino si eleva in volo alla vista della Basilica di Loreto

San Giuseppe da Copertino si eleva in volo alla vista della Basilica di Loreto

He frescoed the interior of the Basilica of Giuseppe da Copertino, Osimo.Website of San Giuseppe da Copertino church
entry on artist.

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1888 births 1990 deaths Italian centenarians Painters from Naples 20th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Men centenarians 20th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub