Giacomo del Po

Giacomo del Pò ( born December 29, 1654 Rome, † November 16, 1726 in Naples) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque.

Life

According to Thieme -Becker Giacomo del Pò was born in Rome, according to De Dominici in Naples. It is certain that he was a pupil of his father, the painter and engraver Pietro del Pò. Then he went into the workshop of Nicolas Poussin in Rome. Even the age of twenty he was there on June 17, 1674 a member of the Accademia di San Luca.

From 1683 he has been proven in Naples, where he worked with the painter Francesco di Maria ( 1623-1690 ) frescoes in noble palaces. In addition, he was also active as a stage designer for the Teatro di San Bartolomeo.

Initially, the style of Poussin obliged, he moved to Naples in the direction of the Neapolitan Baroque, which was founded by Luca Giordano and continued by his pupil Francesco Solimena.

In 1720, two years after he had taken up residence in Vienna, commissioned Prince Eugene of Savoy del Pò with three large ceiling paintings for the upper Belvedere.

His sister Teresa del Pò worked as a miniaturist, the stepbrother Andrea del Pò should have been a painter. His pupils were Martoriello Gaetano, Antonio Massaro and Luigi Lanzi

Works (selection)

Works in Rome

  • Chiesa di Sant'Angelo in Pescheria (Rome ): 2 altarpieces
  • Chiesa di Santa Marta (Rome). panel

Works in Naples

  • Palazzo Carafa di Maddaloni: In the piano nobile frescoes with Francesco di Maria (1683 ) and Micco Spadaro with Francesco de Mura and Fedele Fischetti (1710 )
  • Palazzo Genzano: fresco decoration in the Gallery
  • Palazzo Caracciolo di Avellino: frescoes decorating with other artists
  • Palazzo dei Duchi di Casamassima: Frescoes in the salon
  • Palazzo Cellammare: frescoes, together with Giacinto Diano and Fedele Fischetti
  • Palazzo Fondi: fresco decoration together with Paolo de Matteis,
  • Chiesa di Sant'Agostino degli Scalzi: " Visitation (1685 ) and" Annunciation "
  • Chiesa di Santa Caterina a Formiello: altar of San Domenico and three images with the history of Santa Caterina and frescoes ( 1702)
  • Chiesa di San Gregorio Armeno: frescoes (1704)
  • Chiesa di San Pietro a Maiella: Ascension (1705 )
  • Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Sette Dolori: Two altarpieces " Cross " and " death of the Saviour " ( 1706)
  • Cappella Palatina in Palazzo Reale ( Naples): frescoes with scenes from the Old Testament (1707 )
  • Chiesa di Santa Teresa degli Scalzi Saint Dominic in the Battle of Prague ( 1710)
  • Chiesa di San Pietro Martire: Madonna del Rosario from 1717.
  • Chiesa dei Girolamini altarpie San Casimiro
  • Chiesa dei Santi Apostoli: Vita frescoes of Saint Gregory and Troadio.
  • Museo di Capodimonte: designs for porcelain painting

Works in other places

  • Cathedral of Sorrento: " Assumption of the Apostles Philip and James the Lesser " (1722)
  • Museo Correale of Terranova: altarpieces " Giovanni Grillo in the conquest of Sorrento ", " The Plague of Sorrento " and " Madonna, child and Saint Gaetano and" Flight into Egypt " (1685 ) (from the Basilica di S. Antonio at Sorrento )
  • Chiesa di San Michele ( Anacapri ): "Birth of Christ " and " Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane "
  • Pinacoteca Civico in the Palazzo Pianetti ( Jesi ): " Trinity, Madonna and guardian angel "
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