Giacinto Diano
Apotheosis of the Heroes of Antiquity, Private collection
Giacinto Diano or Diana (28 March 1731 – 13 August 1803) was an Italian painter, active in Southern Italy in a style that mixes Rococo and Neoclassicism.
Life
Giacinto was born in Pozzuoli, and died in Naples. He trained in the studio of Francesco De Mura,[1] and worked briefly in Rome with Anton Raphael Mengs,[2] before settling in Naples in 1752. His works included paintings in a chapel in San Pietro ad Aram, and in the church of the Nunziata. He painted a Martyrdom of St Catherine now displayed in the Lowe Art Museum at Coral Gables, Florida.
Gaetano Gigante was one of his pupils.
Sources
- ↑ Art and architecture in Italy, 1600-1750, by Rudolf Wittkower, Joseph Connors, and Jennifer Montagu, Page 118
- ↑ 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
External links
- Paintings by Giacinto Diano at the BBC Your Paintings site
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