Vito D'Anna (14 October 1718 – 13 October 1769) was an Italian painter, considered the most prominent painter of Palermitan

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and one of the most important artists of

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Biography

He was the father of Alessandro D'Anna, the brother-in-law of

Francesco Sozzi Francesco Sozzi (26 October 1732 – 1795) was an Italian painter, active in style characteristic of the Rococo period in Palermo. He is distinguished from other fellow painters for his graceful, delicate, and elegant style. He was the son of Oli ...

, and the son-in-law of

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. He studied in

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under

Pietro Paolo Vasta Piero or Pietro Paolo Vasta (31 July 1697 - 28 November 1760) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in the east of his native Sicily. Biography He was born in Acireale. and initially trained with both the painters Giacint ...

from 1736 to 1744, when he returned to Palermo. In Acireale, he had painted ''Portrait of the Provost Gambino''. Returning to Palermo, Vito married the daughter of the Catanese painter

. Sozzi helped arrange D'Anna to work with the circle of an aged

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 ...

in Rome. D'Anna frescoed a number of palaces, and the churches of San Sebastiano, San Matteo and del Salvatore in Palermo. Among his works were: his fresco of the ''Madonna dei Raccomandati'' in the church of the same name, his ''Nativity'' in the church della Grotta, ''Self-portrait'' in the

Pinacoteca Zelantea The Pinacoteca Zelantea is the main art gallery located on Via Marchese di S. Giuliano #17 in the town of Acireale, Sicily. The art gallery and affiliated library are housed in the Neoclassical palace designed by Mariano Panebianco in the late 19t ...

. His nephew,

Giuseppe Patania Giuseppe Patania (January 18, 1780 – February 23, 1852) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassical period. He painted portraits and historical subjects. Biography He was born in Palermo, Sicily. He studied with Giuseppe Velasco Giuseppe ...

, was also a painter.

Works

*''Apotheosis of St. Dominic'' or ''Gloria dei santi domenicani'', 1751, frescos of the

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, church Santa Caterina,

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. *''The Triumph of Minerva'', 1751, fresco, Palazzo Benenati Ventimiglia, Palermo. *''Allegory of Virtues'', 1751, frescos, Palazzo Benenati Ventimiglia, Palermo. *''Il Trionfo dei Re Magi'', 1751–52, fresco, Chiasa dei Tre Re, Palermo. *''Trinità'', oil on wood,

Palazzo Abatellis Palazzo Abatellis (also known as Palazzo Patella) is a palazzo in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy, located in the Kalsa quarter. It is home to the Galleria Regionale della Sicilia, the Gallery of Art for the Sicilian region. History The palaz ...

, Palermo. *''

Apotheosis of Palermo The ''Apotheosis of Palermo'' is a fresco by Vito D'Anna in the Palazzo Isnello, Palermo, Italy, considered one of the most representative works of the Sicilian Baroque painting. It is one of the seven monumental representations of the Genius of ...

'', 1760, fresco of the ballroom,

Palazzo Isnello Palazzo Isnello (also known as Palazzo Termine d'Isnello or Palazzo Sant'Antimo al Cassaro) is an historic palazzo situated between the ancient via del Cassaro and Piazza Borsa, in the Kalsa quarter of Palermo, Sicily. On the ''piano nobile'' of ...

, Palermo. *''Allegory of Political Virtues'', 1762, fresco of the ballroom,

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, Palermo.Storia di Palazzo Alliata di Pietratagliata
. Retrieved 1 September 2010. *''Glory of the Princes of Resuttana'', 1762, fresco of the ballroom, Villa Resuttana, Palermo. *''Glory of St. Basil'', 1763–65, frescos, church of Santissimo Salvatore, Palermo.

Honors

*In 1762 he was elected a member of the

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*In 1765 he was named

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*In 1765 he became a

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of the

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References

Bibliography

*Agostino Gallo, manuscript, 19th century. *Renato Roli, Giancarlo Sestieri. ''I disegni italiani del Settecento''. Treviso, Canova Edizioni, 1982. *''Dizionario biografico degli italiani'', 32nd issue. Rome,

Enciclopedia Italiana The ''Enciclopedia Italiana di Scienze, Lettere e Arti'' (Italian for "Italian Encyclopedia of Science, Letters, and Arts"), best known as ''Treccani'' for its developer Giovanni Treccani or ''Enciclopedia Italiana'', is an Italian-language en ...

, 1986. *Citti Siracusano, ''La pittura del Settecento in Sicilia''. Rome, De Luca, 1986. *Giuliano Briganti (editor). ''La Pittura in Italia. Il Settecento'', volume 2. Milan, Electa, 1990. *Sergio Troisi, ''Vito D'Anna''. Palermo, «Kalos», issue 4, July/August, 1993. *Giulia Sommariva. ''Palazzi nobiliari di Palermo''. Palermo, Dario Flaccovio, 2004. *Mariny Guttilla. ''Mirabile artificio. Pittura religiosa in Sicilia dal XV al XIX secolo''. Palermo, Kalos, 2006. *Mariny Guttilla (editor). ''Cantieri decorativi a Palermo dal tardo barocco alle soglie del neoclassicismo'', in ''Il Settecento e il suo doppio''.''Il Settecento e il suo doppio''. Table of contents
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. Retrieved 1 September 2010. Palermo, Kalós, 2008, p. 177–206.

Notes

External links

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. {{DEFAULTSORT:DAnna, Vito 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters 1718 births 1769 deaths Painters from Palermo 18th-century Italian male artists