Gaetano Gandolfi (31 August 1734 – 20 June 1802) was an Italian painter of the late

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, 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 t ...

and early Neoclassic period, active in

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

Career

Gaetano was born in San Matteo della Decima, near Bologna, to a family of artists. Ubaldo Gandolfi was his brother, Mauro Gandolfi was his son, and Democrito Gandolfi was his grandson. Gaetano became a "student" at the

Accademia Clementina The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna ("academy of fine arts of Bologna") is a public tertiary academy of fine art in Bologna, in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy. It has a campus in Cesena. Giorgio Morandi taught engraving at the Accademia f ...

in Bologna, where he was taught by

Felice Torelli Felice Torelli (9 September 1667 – 11 June 1748) was an Italian painter of the Baroque style, active mainly in Bologna. Biography He was born to a family of artists in Verona, including his brother, Giuseppe Torelli, a noted violinist and ...

and

Ercole Lelli Ercole Lelli (14 September 1702 – 7 March 1766) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque, active mainly in Northern Italy, including his native city of Bologna, as well as Padua and Piacenza. Lelli was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Pietro ...

. In the academy, he was the recipient of several prizes for both figure drawing and sculpture. Later, in an autobiography, Gaetano claimed

(1667–1748) as his master. Other sources mention Ercole Graziani the Younger (1688–1765) and

. He traveled to England, and became strongly influenced by

Tiepolo Giovanni Battista Tiepolo ( , ; March 5, 1696 – March 27, 1770), also known as Giambattista (or Gianbattista) Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style, considered an import ...

. Among his pupils was Serafino Viani from Reggio. Gaetano died in

Bologna, Italy Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

Collections

Today, Gaetano's work is held in the permanent collections of several museums worldwide, including the Cooper Hewitt, the

Detroit Institute of Arts The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), located in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, has one of the list of largest art museums, largest and most significant art collections in the United States. With over 100 galleries, it covers with a major renovation a ...

, the

Norton Museum of Art The Norton Museum of Art is an art museum located in West Palm Beach, Florida. Its collection includes over 8,200 works, with a concentration in European, American, and Chinese art as well as in contemporary art and photography. In 2003, it overt ...

, the

Snite Museum of Art The Snite Museum of Art is the fine art museum on the University of Notre Dame campus, near South Bend, Indiana. With about 30,000 works of art that span cultures, eras, and media, the Snite Museum's permanent collection serves as a rich resource ...

, the

University of Michigan Museum of Art The University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor, Michigan with is one of the largest university art museums in the United States. Built as a war memorial in 1909 for the university's fallen alumni from the Civil War, Alumni Memorial Hall ori ...

, the

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

, the

LACMA The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Page Museum). LACMA was founded in 196 ...

, the

Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest The Museum of Fine Arts ( hu, Szépművészeti Múzeum �seːpmyveːsɛti ˈmuːzɛum is a museum in Heroes' Square, Budapest, Hungary, facing the Palace of Art. It was built by the plans of Albert Schickedanz and Fülöp Herzog in an eclecti ...

, the

Toledo Museum of Art The Toledo Museum of Art is an internationally known art museum located in the Old West End neighborhood of Toledo, Ohio. It houses a collection of more than 30,000 objects. With 45 galleries, it covers 280,000 square feet and is currently in th ...

, and the

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...

Gallery

File:'Head of a Bishop', oil on canvas painting by Gaetano Gandolfi, Metropolitan Museum of Art.JPG, ''Head of a Bishop'', c. 1770, Metropolitan Museum of Art File:Gaetano Gandolfi - Study of a Bearded Man - WGA8456.jpg, ''Study of a Bearded Man'', 1770s File:Gaetano Gandolfi Retrato de mujer joven 1767 PN Bolonia.jpg, ''Study of a Young Woman'', 1767 File:Gandolfi, Gaetano - Portrait of a Young Woman - 1777.jpg, ''Portrait of a Young Woman'', 1777 File:Gaetano Gandolfi Autorretrato 1780 PN Bolonia.jpg, ''Self-portrait'', 1780 File:'Joseph's Dream', painting by Gaetano Gandolfi, c. 1790.jpg, ''Joseph's Dream'', c. 1790 File:Gaetano Gandolfi - The Marriage at Cana - Walters 371919.jpg, ''The Marriage at Cana'', 1766, ''Walters Art Museum'' File:Gandolfi - Allegory of Justice.jpg, ''Allegory of Justice'', 1760s File:'The Judgement of Solomon', oil on canvas painting by Gaetano Gandolfi, mid 1770s.jpg, ''Judgement of Solomon'', mid-1770s File:The Heads of Five Young Women with Elaborate Coiffures, Gaetano Gandolfi.jpg, ''Heads of Five Young Women with Elaborate Coiffures'', pen and brown ink on paper

References

* Biagi Maino, Donatella, ''Gaetano Gandolfi / Donatella Biagi Maino'', Torino, U. Allemandi, 1995. * Cazort, Mimi, ''Bella Pittura: The Art of the Gandolfi'', Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, 1993. * Cazort, Mimi, The Art of Embellishment: Drawings and Paintings by Gaetano and Mauro Gandolfi for a Festive Carriage, in ''Record of The Art Museum, Princeton University'', Volume 52, Number 2, 1993. * Rosasco, Betsy, Drawings by the Gandolfi Family and Their Followers in The Art Museum: A Checklist, in ''Record of The Art Museum, Princeton University'', Volume 52, Number 2, 1993. * Vicenza, Neri Pozza, ''I Gandolfi: Ubaldo, Gaetano, Mauro, disegni e dipinti'', Neri Pozza Editore, 1987.

External links

*
''Europe in the age of enlightenment and revolution''
a catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Gandolfi (see index)

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gandolfi, Gaetano 1734 births 1802 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 19th-century Italian painters 19th-century Italian male artists Painters from Bologna Italian Baroque painters Rococo painters 18th-century Italian male artists