Interno del Vesuvio - Odoardo Fischetti (1805)

Odoardo Fischetti (Naples, 1770/04/30 – Naples, 1827/11/15) was an Italian painter (first

Kingdom of Naples The Kingdom of Naples ( la, Regnum Neapolitanum; it, Regno di Napoli; nap, Regno 'e Napule), also known as the Kingdom of Sicily, was a state that ruled the part of the Italian Peninsula south of the Papal States between 1282 and 1816. It was ...

and then

Kingdom of the Two Sicilies The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies ( it, Regno delle Due Sicilie) was a kingdom in Southern Italy from 1816 to 1860. The kingdom was the largest sovereign state by population and size in Italy before Italian unification, comprising Sicily and a ...

) of landscapes and

history painting History painting is a genre in painting defined by its subject matter rather than any artistic style or specific period. History paintings depict a moment in a narrative story, most often (but not exclusively) Greek and Roman mythology and Bible ...

s in a Neoclassical style.

Biography

Odoardo Maria Saverio 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 ...

on April the 30th of 1770, son of the court painter

Fedele Fischetti Fedele Fischetti (30 March 1732 – 25 January 1792) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassical period. He was born and died in Naples the capital of the Kingdom of Naples. Biography F. Fischetti was mainly active as a fresco painter for pa ...

and of Marianna Borrelli. He became a master of design at the Royal College of the Navy in 1809. In 1803–1804, he helped his father in the

fresco Fresco (plural ''frescos'' or ''frescoes'') is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaste ...

decoration of the

Palace of Portici The Royal Palace of Portici (''Reggia di Portici'' or ''Palazzo Reale di Portici''; nap, Reggia ‘e Puortece) is a former royal palace in Portici, Southeast of Naples along the coast, in the region of Campania, Italy. Today it is the home of t ...

. In 1805, he prepared some

vedute A ''veduta'' (Italian for "view"; plural ''vedute'') is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista. The painters of ''vedute'' are referred to as ''vedutisti''. Origins This genre ...

in gouache depicting an ''Eruption at

Vesuvius Mount Vesuvius ( ; it, Vesuvio ; nap, 'O Vesuvio , also or ; la, Vesuvius , also , or ) is a somma-stratovolcano located on the Gulf of Naples The Gulf of Naples (), also called the Bay of Naples, is a roughly 15-kilometer-wide (9 ...

''. With the arrival of the French Napoleonic administration of

Joachim Murat Joachim Murat ( , also , ; it, Gioacchino Murati; 25 March 1767 – 13 October 1815) was a French military commander and statesman who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. Under the French Empire he received the ...

, he painted a series of historical canvases, including ''Murat from

Massa Lubrense Massa Lubrense ( nap, Màssë) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the Italian region Campania, located about southeast of Naples. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 13,404 and an area of 19.7 km2. ...

directs the capture of

Capri Capri ( , ; ; ) is an island located in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrento Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples in the Campania region of Italy. The main town of Capri that is located on the island shares the name. It has been ...

'', and its companion ''Capture of Capri by French'' (1808). After the fall of Murat he continued to paint mainly sacred subjects including the 1821 ''Virgin, St Biagio, Andrea, Erasmo and Alfonso Maria de Liguori''. and ''The transport of the Arca Santa to the roof of San Biagio in Cardito'' (1823).Napoli nobilissima
Volumes 9-10, page 106. Some years after he died in

on November the 15th of 1827. He left a widow (his 2nd wife Maria Giuseppa Milzi) and a childhood of 9 (4 boys and 5 girls), 4 of which from his 1st wife (Emilia Catozzi).

References

1780 births 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 19th-century Italian painters 19th-century Italian male artists Italian neoclassical painters Painters from Naples Year of death missing 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub