Aversa
Aversa () is a city and ''comune'' in the Province of Caserta in Campania, southern Italy, about 24 km north of Naples. It is the centre of an agricultural district, the ''Agro Aversano'', producing wine and cheese (famous for the typical bu ...
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Province of Caserta
The Province of Caserta ( it, Provincia di Caserta) is a province in the Campania region of southern Italy. Its capital is the city of Caserta, situated about by road north of Naples. The province has an area of , and had a total population of 9 ...
, May 24, 1834 - January 19, 1913) was an Italian painter.
Born to working-class parents, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of
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 painted mainly landscapes, historic and sacred subjects, or Neo-Pompeian themes. In 1885 at the Mostra Borbonica of Naples, he displayed ''The daughter of
Titian
Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italians, Italian (Republic of Venice, Venetian) painter of the Renaissance, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school (art), ...
'' and in 1859, he sent ''St. Anthony Abbot mourning on the remains of St Paul, the first hermit''. In 1874, he sent to the Promotrice partenopea, the canvas ''Il cadavere di Coligny'', and in 1879, ''La piccola operaia''. In later years, he returned to his native town of Aversa where he became an educator and sponsor of the arts.
Among his historic canvases are ''Il pentimento di Fanfulla di Lodi'', ''La congiura di Marin Faliero'' He also painted (now restored) lateral walls of the church of Santi Filippo e Giacomo in Aversa, and frescoes in the Palazzo municipale of
Frattamaggiore
Frattamaggiore (locally also known as Fratta) is a ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy. It is located north of Naples and southwest of Caserta. It was awarded the title of "City of art" in 2008 and named Benedictine ci ...
, including ''Il cardinale Fabrizio Ruffo libera Aversa dai francesi''. He also painted medallions with illustrious men of the town for the ceiling of the Council hall of the Palazzo municipale of Aversa.
Among his pupils were his grandson Girolamo Pastore,
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