Gaetano Bocchetti
Gaetano Bocchetti (10 August 1888 – 1990) was an Italian painter. He was born in Naples and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples. He participated in a number of exhibitions, including the 1920 Venice Biennale, the 1921 Quadriennale of Rome, and from 1923 at the national Biennale of Naples. He exhibited at a Florentine exhibition by Sembenelli, in 1926 at the Quadriennale of Turin, and gained the premio Cremona in 1935–36, the premio Michetti in 1965, and the premio Posillipo in 1965.
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Ecstatic levitation of San Giuseppe at the site of Loreto by Bocchetti
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Glory of San Giuseppe da Copertino at apse of church
He frescoed the interior of the Basilica of Giuseppe da Copertino, Osimo.[1]
References[]
- ^ Website of San Giuseppe da Copertino church, entry on artist.
Categories:
- 1888 births
- 1990 deaths
- Italian centenarians
- Painters from Naples
- 20th-century Italian painters
- Italian male painters
- Men centenarians