Giuseppe Mancinelli

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Giuseppe Mancinelli (Naples, 1813 - Palazzolo di Castrocelo, 1875) was an Italian painter.

Biography

His father was in the service of the Venitgnano family, who patronized his early studies at the Neapolitan Academy of Art, then under the guidance of Vincenzo Camuccini. He painted an altarpiece of San Carlo Borromeo provides Viaticum to Plague Victim for the Church of San Carlo all'Arena. After 1850, he was named to replace Tito Angelini as the professor of Design at the Neapolitan Academy, besting out Di Napoli and Raffaele Postiglione in a contest for the position.^[1] He painted the Sipario or theater curtain, for the teatro San Carlo with Muses, Homer, poets, and musicians (1854) to replace the original curtain by Giuseppe Cammarano that had burned in a fire.^[2] Among his pupils were Alfonso Simonetti, Ciro Punzo, and his son Gustavo.

References

Napier, Lord Francis (1855). Notes on Modern Painting at Naples.. West Strand, London: John W. Parker and Son. pp. 32–39.

↑ F. Napier, page 39
↑ Napoli e dintorni, Touring Club Italiano, (2001) page 119.

Persondata
Name	Mancinelli, Giuseppe
Alternative names
Short description	Italian painter
Date of birth	1813
Place of birth	Naples, Italy
Date of death	1875
Place of death

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