Oreste Recchione (September 30, 1841 – November 10, 1904) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes but also of religious and mythologic paintings.

Biography

Recchione was born in Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi near

Chieti Chieti (, ; , nap, label= Abruzzese, Chjïétë, ; gr, Θεάτη, Theátē; lat, Theate, ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Central Italy, east by northeast of Rome. It is the capital of the province of Chieti in the Abruzzo region. ...

Province of Chieti The province of Chieti ( it, provincia di Chieti; Abruzzese: ') is a province in the Abruzzo region of Italy. Its provincial capital is the city Chieti, which has a population of 50,770 inhabitants. The province has a total population of 387,649 ...

. He moved with his parents to Palena. After elementary studies in Palena, he moved to further studies in Pescocostanzo in the

Abruzzi Abruzzo (, , ; nap, label=Neapolitan language, Abruzzese Neapolitan, Abbrùzze , ''Abbrìzze'' or ''Abbrèzze'' ; nap, label=Sabino dialect, Aquilano, Abbrùzzu; #History, historically Abruzzi) is a Regions of Italy, region of Southern Italy wi ...

. In 1856, his uncle, a doctor and professor at the University 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 ...

, brought Recchione to study, where he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, along with his friend

Teofilo Patini Teofilo Patini (Castel di Sangro, Abruzzo May 5, 1840 – Naples, November 16, 1906) was an Italian painter, active in a Realism (arts), Realist style. Biography He was born to a landowning family of some wealth. In 1855, he began classical studi ...

, studying under Basilio Puoti, Biagio Molinari, and

Giuseppe Mancinelli Giuseppe Mancinelli (17 March 1813, in Naples – 25 May 1875, in Castrocielo) was an Italian painter. Biography His father was in the service of the Venitgnano family, who patronized his early studies at the Neapolitan Academy of Fine Arts, the ...

. By 1859, he was gravitating to the circle of the painters ''del vero'',

Domenico Morelli Domenico Morelli (4 August 182313 August 1901) was an Italian painter, who mainly produced historical and religious works. Morelli was immensely influential in the arts of the second half of the 19th century, both as director of the Accademia di ...

and Filippo Palizzi. After the fall of the Bourbon monarchy, Recchione helped found the Society for the Promotion of the Arts in Naples. Later in life, he moved to Palena in the Abruzzo. He died in

, aged 63. Among his works are : "La Pioggia ed il Potatore" (exhibited in 1871 at Naples); ''Dafni e Cloe'' (1877); ''Una sera d'autunno ne' monti Abruzzesi'' (1884); "Inverno" (1885); "Primavera" (1885, exhibited at Genoa), and "L'avanguardia del gregge" (1890. Naples).Recchione has two paintings in Abruzzo: ''St Andrew Fisherman'' (1870) in the church of the Madonna del Rosario in Palena, and a ''Holy Family'' (1902) in Abbey of Monteplanizio at

Lettopalena Lettopalena ( Abruzzese: ') is a ''comune'' and town in the province of Chieti in the Abruzzo region of south-eastern Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. ...

. An exhibit of his works was held in 1996 at the Castello of Palena and the Museo "Costantino Barbella" of Chieti: "Oreste Recchione poeta della natura", curated by Cosimo Savastano and Bianca Maria De Luca, Provincia di Chieti.Il Denaro
article regarding exhibition.

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19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters 1841 births 1904 deaths Italian landscape painters 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub