Sebastiano Conca

Sebastiano Conca, also called " Il Cavaliere " called ( born January 8, 1680 in Gaeta, † September 1, 1764 in Naples) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque.

Life

Sebastiano Conca was the eldest of ten children of businessman and farmer control Erasmo Conca and his wife Caterina de Lorio. At a young age, his father sent him to the workshop of Francesco Solimena (1657-1747) to Naples. Conca 1702 accompanied his master to Montecassino. During his training he acquired Solimena strongly contrasting style of painting.

Conca 1706 went with his brother Giovanni Conca to Rome and founded his own workshop for painting frescoes and panel paintings, which developed his style in the direction of a classical late Baroque on. This also designated as a Roman Classicism art style had developed as a countermovement to frivolous rococo perceived and brought by the rediscovery of ancient Rome a classically oriented artistic aesthetic from this week.

In 1710 he founded the " Accademia del Nudo ", which was attended by many students from all over Europe, in turn, the classical approach spread across the continent. 1719 Conca member of the Accademia di San Luca, and was twice elected to their Princeps. One of his early sponsors were the Principe della Mayor and Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, who was in addition to numerous other offices also archpriest of St. John Lateran. By Ottoboni intercession of Pope Clement XI Conca received. commissioned to paint in the San Giovanni in Laterano and the San Clemente frescoes. As a reward he received from the Pope a knighthood and an occupied with diamond cross. His studio was now the great hall in the Palazzo Farnese, which was left to him by the Duke of Parma.

In this early period he also worked with Carlo Maratta together in the Santa Cecilia in Trastevere and 1718 alone in Genoa at the Palazzo Doria - Lomellini. 1721-1725, he was appointed to the House of Savoy to Turin, where he frescos and oil paintings created in various churches and in the royal palace. He later received orders from Philip V (Spain ), the kings of Poland, Portugal, Sardinia and of the Archbishop of Cologne.

1731 was followed by an order in Siena, to paint the apse of the Santissima Annunziata. The order filled the last will and testament written last will of Ugolino Billo, the former rector of the Siena Santa Maria della Scala was. In 1739 he wrote for a book titled " Ammonimenti " ( " admonitions " ), a kind of moral guide for aspiring artists.

1751 Finally, he returned to Naples, where he artistically strong zuwendete an illusionistic painting in the style of Luca Giordano.

Student

Pompeo Batoni, Andrea Casali, Placido Campolo, Gaetano Lapis, Salvatore Monosilio, Litterio Paladini, Giuseppe Paladini, Gaetano Mercurio, Francesco Preziao, Rosalba Maria Salvioni, Agostino Masucci, Giuseppe Ranucci, Corrado Giaquinto, Olivio Sozzi, Filippo Randazzo, Pietro Paolo Vasta, Fedele Tirrito, Placido Campolo, Gaspare Serenario, Priciado de la Vega, Anton Raphael Mengs and his nephew Tommaso Conca and the brother Giovanni Conca.

Panel paintings

  • Adoration of the Shepherds, ( 1720), J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
  • Adoration of the Magi, (1707 ), Musée des Beaux -Arts, Tours
  • Holy Family with Saints Anne, Zachariah and John the Baptist (1723 ) panel, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
  • Rinaldo and Armida, ( 1725-30 ), Saint Louis Art Museum
  • Sibyl (1726 ) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • Saint Toribo, Archbishop of Lima, (1726) Vatican Museums, Rome
  • Visions of Aeneas, ( 1735-40 ) Ringling Museum of Art
  • Baptism of Christ, panel Museo Civico Teramo
  • Madonna della Grazie with Saints, Church of Santa Maria Infante in Minturno
  • Gloria of Santa Cecilia, Palazzo Pitti Florence
  • Presentation of Mary in the Temple, Monastery of the Presentation in Monte Argentario
  • Alexander the Great in the Temple of Jerusalem ( 1746 ) Museo del Prado, Madrid
  • Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane ( 1746 ) Vatican Museums, Rome
  • Historia di San Francesco di Paolo, ( 1762-63 ) Santa Maria di Pozzano, Castellammare di Stabia
  • Madonna del Paradiso, Chiesa della Madonna del Paradiso Mazara del Vallo
  • Discovery of the Cross, ( 1746 ), Vatican Museums, Rome

Frescoes

  • Frescoes ( 1721-25 ) in the Oratory of San Filippo and Santa Teresa, Venaria
  • Coronation of Santa Cecilia ( 1725) Fresco, Santa Cecilia, Rome
  • Frescoes in the Basilica della Superga (1726 ) Piedmont
  • Probatica Piscina ( pond of Bethseba ), ( 1732) Fresco Basilica della Santissima Annunziata, Siena
  • Frescoes in the Royal Palace of Turin ( 1733)
  • Allegorical scenes, fresco ( 1738-40 ) Palazzo Lomellini - Doria, Genoa
  • Frescoes in the Santa Chiara ( 1752-54 ) Naples
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