Odoardo Fischetti

Odoardo Fischetti (Naples, circa 1780 - after 1823) was an Italian painter, active in a Neoclassical style, depicting large canvases with landscape and history.

Biography

He was son of the court painter Fedele Fischetti. He became a master of design at the Royal College of the Navy in 1809.[1] In 1803-1804, he helped his father in the fresco decoration of the Palace of Portici. In 1805, he prepared some vedute in gouache depicting an Eruption at Vesuvius.[2] With the arrival of the French Napoleonic administration of Joachim Murat, he painted a series of historical canvases, including Murat from Massa Lubrense directs the capture of Capri [3] and its companion Capture of Capri by French (1808)[4]

After the fall of Murat he continued to paint mainly sacred subjects including the 1821 Virgin, St Biagio, Andrea, Erasmo and Alfonso Maria de Liguori.[5] and The transport of the Arca Santa to the roof of San Biagio in Cardito (1823).[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ Ricerche su l'origine, su i progressi, e sul decadimento delle arti, 1821, by Giovanni Battista Gennaro Grossi, page 31.
  2. ↑ Istituto Matteucci biography.
  3. ↑ Il Portale de Sud, painting of Murat assiste all presa di Capri... found at Naples Museum of San Martino.
  4. ↑ Presa di Capri ad opera dei francesi at the Museum of the Certosa of San Martino.
  5. ↑ Encyclopedia Treccani, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 48 (1997) by Francesca Bertozzi.
  6. ↑ Istituto Matteucci biography.
  7. ↑ Napoli nobilissima, Volumes 9-10, page 106.