Odoardo Fischetti
Odoardo Fischetti (Naples, 1770/04/30[1] – Naples, 1827/11/15[2]) was an Italian painter (first Kingdom of Naples and then Kingdom of the Two Sicilies) of landscapes and history paintings in a Neoclassical style.
Biography[]
Odoardo Maria Saverio was born in Naples on april the 30th of 1770,[1] son of the court painter Fedele Fischetti and of Marianna Borrelli. He became a master of design at the Royal College of the Navy in 1809.[3] In 1803–1804, he helped his father in the fresco decoration of the Palace of Portici. In 1805, he prepared some vedute in gouache depicting an Eruption at Vesuvius.[4] With the arrival of the French Napoleonic administration of Joachim Murat, he painted a series of historical canvases, including Murat from Massa Lubrense directs the capture of Capri,[5] and its companion Capture of Capri by French (1808).[6]
After the fall of Murat he continued to paint mainly sacred subjects including the 1821 Virgin, St Biagio, Andrea, Erasmo and Alfonso Maria de Liguori.[7] and The transport of the Arca Santa to the roof of San Biagio in Cardito (1823).[8][9]
Some years after he died in Naples on november the 15th of 1827.[2] He left a widow (his 2nd wife Maria Giuseppa Milzi) and a childhood of 9 (4 boys and 5 girls), 4 of which from his 1st wife (Emilia Catozzi).
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Baptism certificate". www.antenati.san.beniculturali.it/. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Death certificate". www.antenati.san.beniculturali.it/. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
- ^ Ricerche su l'origine, su i progressi, e sul decadimento delle arti, 1821, by Giovanni Battista Gennaro Grossi, page 31.
- ^ Istituto Matteucci biography.
- ^ Il Portale de Sud, painting of Murat assiste all presa di Capri... found at Naples Museum of San Martino.
- ^ Presa di Capri ad opera dei francesi Archived 2014-03-06 at the Wayback Machine at the Museum of the Certosa of San Martino.
- ^ Encyclopedia Treccani, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 48 (1997) by Francesca Bertozzi.
- ^ Istituto Matteucci biography.
- ^ Napoli nobilissima, Volumes 9-10, page 106.
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- Italian male painters
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