Giovanni Fulco (1615-c. 1680) was an Italian painter of the

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 ...

period.

Biography

He was born in

Messina Messina (, also , ) is a harbour city and the capital of the Italian Metropolitan City of Messina. It is the third largest city on the island of Sicily, and the 13th largest city in Italy, with a population of more than 219,000 inhabitants in ...

. After having learned the first principles of design there, he went to

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 ...

, where he entered the school of Cavalière

Massimo Stanzione Massimo Stanzione (also called Stanzioni; 1585 – 1656) was an Italian Baroque painter, mainly active in Naples, where he and his rival Jusepe de Ribera dominated the painting scene for several decades. He was primarily a painter of altarpiece ...

. He excelled particularly in the representation of children. Many of his pictures have been destroyed by the earthquakes. Of those that remain are his fresco works and a canvas on oil of the ''Birth of the Virgin'' in the chapel of the Crucifixion at the Nunziata de'Teatini at Messina. During 1674–79, he frescoed the choir of the church of Santi Pietro e Paolo in Acireale, presently somewhat restored. He died in poverty in Rome.Giornale di scienze, letteratura ed arti per la Sicilia
Volumes 3-4, ''Memoria di Pittori Messinesi'' by Giuseppe Grossi Cacopardi, (1823), page 96.

References

* 1615 births 1680s deaths Painters from Messina 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Naples Italian Baroque painters {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub