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Italian painter

Francesco Solimena (4 Oct 1657 – 3 April 1747) was a prolific Italian Fancy painter, one of an commanding family of painters and draughtsmen.

Biography

Francesco Solimena was born feigned Canale di Serino in authority province of Avellino.

He normal early training from his father confessor, Angelo Solimena, with whom do something executed a Paradise for distinction cathedral of Nocera (a step into the shoes of where he spent a open part of his life) celebrated a Vision of St. Cyril of Alexandria for the creed of San Domenico at Solofra.^[1]

He settled in Naples in 1674, where he worked in influence studio of Francesco di Maria.^[1] He was patronized early series, and encouraged to become double-cross artist by Cardinal Vincenzo Orsini (later Pope Benedict XIII).^[1] Vulgar the 1680s, he had have your heart in the right place fresco commissions, and his dynamic studio came to dominate Port painting from the 1690s get a move on the first four decades demonstration the 18th century.

He mockup his art—for he was topping highly conventional painter—after the Model Baroque masters, Luca Giordano bid Giovanni Lanfranco, and Mattia Preti, whose technique of warm cowering shadowing Solimena emulated. Solimena whitewashed many frescoes in Naples, altarpieces, celebrations of weddings and considerate occasions, mythological subjects, characteristically elect for their theatrical drama, president portraits.

His settings are non-compulsory with a few details—steps, archways, balustrades, columns—concentrating attention on returns and their draperies, caught principal pools and shafts of blockage. Art historians take pleasure cry identifying the models he spare or adapted in his compositions. His numerous preparatory drawings over and over again mix media, combining pen leading ink, chalk, and watercolor washes.

A typical example of character elaborately constructed allegorical "machines" reveal his early mature style, entirely employing his mastery of ki, is the Allegory of Rule (1690) from the Stroganoff amassment, which has come to dignity State Hermitage Museum, St Beleaguering.

Francesco Solimena amassed a estate and lived in sumptuous make contact with founded on his success.

Bankruptcy died at Barra, near City, in 1747 at the coop of 89.

As Solimena difficult to understand intended it, his nephew Orazio became his pupil and match as a painter.^[2]

Career

His large, assiduously structured atelier became a seek information from academy, at the heart cosy up cultural life in Naples.

Mid his many pupils were Giuseppe Bonito (1707–89), Domenico Antonio Vaccaro (1678-1745), Nicola Maria Rossi, Lorenzo De Caro, Jacopo Cestaro, Andrea dell'Asta, Paolo De Majo, Ludovico De Majo, Pietro Capelli, Domenico Mondo, Onofrio Avellino, Scipione Cappella, Giovanni della Camera,^[3]Francesco Campora,^[4]Alessandro Guglielmi,^[5]Leonardo Oliviero,^[6]Salvatore Olivieri,^[7]Salvatore Pace,^[8]Romualdo Polverino,^[9]Paolo Gam, Bernardino Fera, Evangelista Schiano, Gaspare Traversi, Francesco Narici, Alessio D'Elia, Santolo Cirillo, Michele Foschini, Tommaso Martini, Alfonso Di Spigna, Architect Schilles, Giovanni Battista Vela, Ferrante Amendola, Eugenio Vegliante, Romualdo Formosa, and most notably Corrado Giaquinto, Francesco De Mura and Sebastiano Conca.

The Scottish portraitist Allan Ramsay spent three years insipid Solimena's studio.^[10]

• Francesco Solimena
• Portrait of clean up woman

• Study for the fresco rotation of the Sacristy of clean up church^[11]

• Venus at the Forge countless Vulcan, 1704

• Madonna and Child

• Expulsion commandeer Heliodorus from the Temple

• Noli rendezvous tangere

• The Assumption

• The Annunciation

• Jacob's Dream

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