Gaetano Capone (1845–1924) was an

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painter, mostly depicting landscapes and

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subjects.

Biography

Gaetano was born to a family of painters in

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in the

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. His brother Luigi was also a painter. He moved to Naples to study painting, and from there, obtained a stipend from the province to move to Rome to study under Cesare Fracassini. One of his entries obtained a silver medal at a competition by

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in Rome. He helped Fracassini with painting at the Basilica of San Lorenzo. He returned to Maiori in 1868, where he painted frescoes in the Collegiata di Santa Maria a Mare, for the Abbey of

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, and for the churches of

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and Casalvelino. In Maiori, along with Raffaele D'Amato, he mentored a number of painters taking advantage of the panoramic locale to create a school of painters integrating landscape and culture into a school of painting loosely known as the Costaioli. Among the Costaioli painters are Angelo Della Mura,

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, Enrico Lucibello, and

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. In the first decades of the twentieth century, they were joined in Maiori by

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, Luca Albino, Manfredi Nicoletti, Ignazio Lucibello, Gaetano Cimini, Paolo Caruso, Ulderico Forcellini, and Vittorio Acabbo. Gaetano's grandson, Gaetano Capone the younger (1933-2011) was also a painter. Gaetano the elder was knighted into the

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and made honorary member of various academies. He died in Maiori. Among his works are:Gubernatis, page 95. *''Il mese Mariano, oil at Maiori Cathedral * ''Paese a chiaro di Luna'', oil sold to the American Admiral Farragut; * ''Il catechismo al villaggio'' * ''La contravvenzione al contadino'' * ''La caccia al topo'', bought by government of Uruguay * ''La pappa'', bought by government of Uruguay; * ''La zingara'' * ''La ritirala precipitosa'' * ''L’incasso dei limoni, costume napoletano'' * ''Vive o Re!'', once on display at

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References

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