Onofrio Avellino (c. 1674 – 17 April 1741) 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

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 ...

, Giulio died in

Ferrara Ferrara (, ; egl, Fràra ) is a city and ''comune'' in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital of the Province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream ...

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, where he painted for the last twenty years of his life. He initially trained under

Luca Giordano Luca Giordano (18 October 1634 – 3 January 1705) was an Italian late-Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Fluent and decorative, he worked successfully in Naples and Rome, Florence, and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain. Ear ...

. His adherence to the pictorial manner of the master was such that some of his copies of Jordanian compositions (battles, above all) were sold as original works of the same Giordano. But in 1692, when the former left to work in Madrid, he entered the studio of the Neapolitan

Francesco Solimena Francesco Solimena (4 October 1657 – 3 April 1747) was a prolific Italian painter of the Baroque era, one of an established family of painters and draughtsmen. Biography Francesco Solimena was born in Canale di Serino in the province of ...

. He painted a ''Virgin and Child, with Angels and Saints in Glory'' for the church of the

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Sorrento Sorrento (, ; nap, Surriento ; la, Surrentum) is a town overlooking the Bay of Naples in Southern Italy. A popular tourist destination, Sorrento is located on the Sorrentine Peninsula at the south-eastern terminus of the Circumvesuviana rail ...

. For a church of Vico, he painted a canvas of ''St Ciro and Giovanni and the Virgin''. He painted two canvases, one of a ''Miracle of St Dominic'' and the ''Apparition of the Virgin to the Shepherdess'', for the church of Rosariello delle Pigne, outside of the Porta di Gennaro. He also made copies of Giordano and Solimena for export.De Dominici 1846, p. 554. Towards the end of the second decade of the eighteenth century he moved to Rome, though he maintained close contacts with the Neapolitan artistic environment. Of the long activity in Rome, which he mainly dedicated to portraiture, one should pay attention to The Glory of St. Anna in the ceiling of the church of St. Francesco da Paola, a St. Joseph in the same church and a St. Albert Caring for the Sick in St. Maria di Montesanto. Only the first of these works has come to the present day, having lost the others in an indeterminable period. His elder sibling was, reputedly, Giulio Giacinto Avellino, also a painter, born in 1645. By 1718, he had transferred to Rome, where he was influenced by

Carlo Maratta Carlo Maratta or Maratti (13 May 162515 December 1713) was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner. Although he is part of the classical tradition ...

. The frescoes on the vault of San Francesco di Paola ai Monti in Rome are by Onofrio. He painted an altarpiece on the ''San Alberto heals the sick'' for the church of

Santa Maria in Montesanto Santa Maria dei Miracoli and Santa Maria di Montesanto are two churches of Rome, churches in Rome. They are located on the Piazza del Popolo, facing the northern gate of the Aurelian Walls, at the entrance of Via del Corso on the square. The chu ...

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