Giovanni Fulco

Giovanni Fulco (* 1605 in Messina, † 1680 in Rome) was an Italian painter of the Baroque in Sicily.

Life

Fulco was a pupil of Antonio Catalano il Giovane (1585-1666) in Messina and then moved to Massimo Stanzione in Naples, from whom he took over the chiaroscuro of Caravaggio and the elegant style of painting by Guido Reni.

Back in Messina, he worked as a painter of frescoes and altarpieces. Because of the anti-Spanish revolt in 1674 Messina Fulco had to leave. About Naples he went to Rome, where he died in 1680.

The drawings from his estate secured the famous painter Carlo Maratta, the Fulcos powerful and realistic style of painting valued.

The largest part of Fulcos work was lost in the great earthquake of 1908.

One of his students in Messina, Giovanni Lo Coco

Works (selection)

• Chiesa della Santissima Annunziata (Messina): frescoes and " Marie Birth " in the Cappella del Crucifix
• Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta ( VI Messina, Faro Superiore / Ganzirri ): panel painting " Pieta "
• Chiesa Santa Maria della Lettera ( VI Messina, Torre Faro): Panel Paintings " stigmatization of Francis " and " Pieta "
• Basilica of Santissima Pietro e Paolo ( Acireale ): frescoes in the choir and the apse ( with Baldessaro Grasso )