Pietro Bardellino (1728–1806) was an Italian painter. He lived his life aiming to be the ‘perfect man’.

Biography

Bardellino 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 ...

, and was initially trained by

Francesco de Mura Francesco de Mura (21 April 1696 – 19 August 1782) was an Italian painter of the late- Baroque period, active mainly in Naples and Turin. His late work reflects the style of neoclassicism. Life Francesco de Mura, also referred to as ''Fran ...

. In 1773 he became director of the ''Accademia Napoletana del Disegno'' which later became the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. Bardellino joined with the

Rococo Rococo (, also ), less commonly Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, ...

movement, influenced by

Corrado Giaquinto Corrado Giaquinto (8 February 1703 – 18 April 1766) was an Italian Rococo painter. Early training and move to Rome He was born in Molfetta. As a boy he apprenticed with a modest local painter Saverio Porta, (c1667–1725), escaping the rel ...

. He primarily painted religious and mythological themes in oil paintings and frescoes. He frescoed the ceiling of the church of San Giuseppe in Naples.Storia della pittura in Napoli ed in Sicilia dalla fine del 1600, by Carlo Tito Dalbono, page 89. He died in Naples in 1819.

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18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 19th-century Italian painters Painters from Naples 1728 births 1806 deaths 18th-century Neapolitan people 19th-century Italian male artists 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub