Antonio Cavallucci
Antonio Cavallucci(21 August 1752 – 18 November 1795) was an eighteenth-century Italian painter of religious scenes and portraits.[1]
Biography[edit]
Cavallucci was born inSermonetain theLazio.His artistic talents were recognized in an early stage by FrancescoCaetani,Duke of Sermonetain 1738-1810. In 1765, he brought the 13-year-old Cavallucci to Rome, where he became a pupil ofStefano Pozziand three years later ofGaetano Lapis.[2]He also studied drawing at theAccademia di San Luca(c. 1769-1771).[citation needed]
His earliest work dates from the mid-1760s. It is atemperafriezein the Casa Cavallucci in Sermoneta. His first portrait was of his benefactor Duke Francesco Caetani.[citation needed]This portrait is only preserved as anengravingin 1772 byPietro Leone Bombelli(1737–1809).[citation needed]
His first major commission was the decoration of five audience chambers in the Caetani Palace in Rome in 1776. He painted mythological scenes andallegoriesappropriate for each room.[citation needed]
In the early 1780s, he painted mostly portraits, such as those ofFrancesco CaetaniandTeresa Corsini, Duchess of Sermoneta.[citation needed]
His painting,TheOrigin of Music(1786), was based on illustrations in the bookIconologia(1593) fromCesare Ripa.[citation needed]
Cavallucci also received commissions from CardinalRomualdo Braschi-Onesti(1753–1817), nephew of the popePius VI.He painted the portraits of his new benefactor and of the pope in 1788.[citation needed]
He was inducted into theAccademia di San Lucain 1786,Academy of Arcadiain 1788, and the Congregazione dei Virtuosi al Pantheon in 1788.[citation needed]
Cavallucci is said to have painted StBenedict Joseph Labrewhile the saint was in ecstasy, or (as is perhaps more plausible), having seen the saint in ecstasy, to have brought him to his studio and painted his portrait there.[citation needed]In later years, he worked for CardinalFrancesco Saverio Zelada,decorating his titular churchSan Martino ai Montiin Rome. Cavallucci died in Rome in 1795.[citation needed]
He was influenced byPompeo BatoniandAnton Raphael Mengs.There is in his art some of the northern European feeling that had made its way into Rome at the end of the eighteenth century. The Portuguese painterDomingos Sequeirawas one of his pupils. It is also known that in Rome he had two more pupils:Giovanni Micoccaand Tommaso Sciacca.[citation needed]
Selected works[edit]
- Abigail before David(1773)
- Departure of Hector and Andromache(1773)
- Crucifixion with Saints(1773)
- Presentation of the Virgin(1786) in theCathedral of Spoleto
- Thomas of Cori (levitation)(1786), Eucharistic museum of Hieron, Paray-le-Monial, France
- Venus with Ascanius,at the Palazzo Cesarini inRome
- Investiture of St Bona(1791),Cathedral of Pisa
- Principe del Belvedere(1793),Gallerie di Capodimonte,Naples
- St. Elias and the Purgatory(1793)S. Martino ai Monti,Rome
- Altar piecein the Church of San Nicolò inCatania,Sicily
- St Francis announces the Pardon to the peoplein the Chapel of St Diego d’Alcalà in theBasilica of Santa Maria degli Angeliin Assisi.
References[edit]
- Sperindei, Simona, ed. (2016).Addenda all'opera di Antonio Cavallucci, Annali della Pontificia Insigne Accademia di Belle Arti e Lettere dei Virtuosi al Pantheon (16) pp. 415-420.Città del Vaticano.
- Enciclopedia Italiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti.Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. Vol. IX, p. 557.
- Turner, Jane, ed. (1996).Grove Dictionary of Art.Macmillan Publishers.ISBN1-884446-00-0.
- Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.).Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters.London: Woodfall & Kinder. p. 44.
- ^Seubert, Adolf; Seubert, Adolf Friedrich (1878).Allgemeines Künstlerlexicon, oder, Leben und Werke der berühmtesten bildenden Künstler(in German). Ebner & Seubert. p. 249.
- ^Vita di Antonio Cavallucci da Sermoneta pittore;by Giovanni Gherardo De Rossi; Venice 1796, page 13.
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