Giacinto Diano

Apotheosis of the Heroes of Antiquity, Private collection

Giacinto Diano or Diana (Pozzuoli, 28 March 1731 – Naples, 13 August 1803) was an Italian painter, active in Southern Italy.

He trained in the studio of Francesco De Mura.[1] Giacinto worked briefly in Rome with Anton Raphael Mengs.[2] then moved to Naples to stay in 1752. he contributed paintings to a chapel in San Pietro ad Aram and in the church of the Nunziata. Among his pupils was Gaetano Gigante.

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  1. ↑ Art and architecture in Italy, 1600-1750, by Rudolf Wittkower, Joseph Connors, and Jennifer Montagu, Page 118
  2. ↑ Le belle arti, Volumes 1-2, By Giovanni Battista Gennaro Grossi, Tipografia del Giornale Enciclopedico, Strada del Salvadore a Sant'Angelo a Nilo #48, Naples (1820); page 192.