Giuseppe Casciaro’s association with Paris appears to have developed earlier than has often been assumed. Vito Carbonara notes that, in 1889, Pio Enea Cugeno referred to works by the young painter as already exhibited, or intended for exhibition, in the French capital. A further indication appears in April 1891, when the Gazzetta delle Puglie reportedContinue reading “Rue Scribe: Giuseppe Casciaro (1861–1941) and an Italian Network in Paris”
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Battistello Caracciolo: Painting after Caravaggio in Naples (Part 1).
Part One: Caravaggio, Naples, and the First Inheritance Overview Giovanni Battista Caracciolo, known as Battistello, was born in Naples in 1578 and died there in December 1635. In 1598 he married Beatrice di Mario da Gaeta, with whom he had a large family, and by the beginning of the new century he was already activeContinue reading “Battistello Caracciolo: Painting after Caravaggio in Naples (Part 1).”
Battistello Caracciolo: Painting after Caravaggio in Naples (Part 2).
Part Two: Ribera, Lanfranco, and the Wider Neapolitan Field That darker current was associated above all with Ribera. His arrival in Naples around 1616 did not simply displace Caravaggio, but changed both the character and the reach of the local naturalist tradition. Causa’s distinction between the two painters is less a judgement of artistic greatnessContinue reading “Battistello Caracciolo: Painting after Caravaggio in Naples (Part 2).”
Battistello Caracciolo: Painting after Caravaggio in Naples (Part 3, Gallery).
Part Three: Selected Works by Battistello Caracciolo Battistello Caracciolo, Due putti vendemmianti / Two youths with grapes, 1605–10; oil on poplar panel; 58.5 × 70.5 cm; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. First published by Raffaello Causa in 1950, while it was in the Moretti collection in Rome, this small early panelContinue reading “Battistello Caracciolo: Painting after Caravaggio in Naples (Part 3, Gallery).”
Giacinto Gigante (1806 to 1876): landscape regenerated from within.
Giacinto Gigante, Veduta di Napoli dalla Conocchia, before 1876, oil on canvas, 37.5 × 60 cm. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons). (Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Museo Nazionale di San Martino, Naples). Born in Naples in July 1806 to Gaetano Gigante and Anna Maria Fatati, Giacinto Gigante grew up in an artistic household. Around 1801, his parents hadContinue reading “Giacinto Gigante (1806 to 1876): landscape regenerated from within.”
Giuseppe Casciaro (1861-1941) –an introduction with context.
Giuseppe Casciaro’s first lessons were with Paolo Emilio Stasi from Spongano in Puglia. As Stasi’s artistic importance, and hence his influence on Casciaro, seems a little understated in the literature, it is worth emphasising that he was a versatile painter who captured various aspects of the people and landscapes of Salento. Vito Carbonara justly refersContinue reading “Giuseppe Casciaro (1861-1941) –an introduction with context.”