Giacinto Gigante (1806–1876) was an Italian painter, engraver, and teacher. He was known for his landscape and vista paintings, exemplary works of the Neapolitan School of Posillipo .
12-534: Gigante may refer to: People [ edit ] Giacinto Gigante (1806–1876), Italian painter Louis Gigante , retired Catholic priest and a brother of mobsters Mario and Vincent Mario Gigante (born 1923), Caporegime in the Genovese crime family Michael Gigante (born 1969), American record producer Sarah Gigante (born 2000), Australian racing cyclist Vincent Gigante (1928–2005), boss of
24-581: A cholera epidemic, Gigante solidified his social standing as the primary exponent of the School of Posillipo. In the same year, he even went to live in the house of the master in Chiaia. In 1844, thanks to the proceeds of various Russian commissions, he was able to buy a personal mansion on the slopes of Vomero . After several trips to Sicily (in 1846, following the czarina Alessandra) and Sorrento (in 1848), Gigante came into contact with Bourbon social circles. He
36-653: A few years. In 1823, Gigante won the Naples Royal Institute of Fine Arts drawing competition. In 1826, he displayed four works at the first Esposizione di Belle Arti. Reportedly though, Gigante did not fit in well with the life of the Naples Royal Institute of Fine Arts, and left. He is one of the original members of the 19th-century Neapolitan " Posillipo School " of painting, named for the area where he lived in Naples. Achille Vianelli Achille Vianelli or Vianelly (21 December 1803 – 2 April 1894)
48-522: A series of lithographs in a Viaggio pittorico nel Regno delle Due Sicilie (1829–1834). In 1848, he moved to Benevento , where he continued drawing and painting. He married Gigante's sister, and vice versa, and is considered a member of the School of Posillipo . His son, Alberto Vianelli , also a landscape painter moved to Paris. Vianelli's sister, Flora, married Theodore Witting, a German landscape artist and engraver. His nephew Gustavo Witting, also became
60-434: Is Vecchio pescatore seduto which, next to the signature, is inscribed: "This sailor was the first figure that I made from life, in 1818." In 1820, together with the painter Achille Vianelli , Gigante began to privately frequent the atelier of Jacob Wilhelm Hüber , an academic German landscape painter. Hüber taught his students the use of the "optical camera" or " camera lucida ": with this instrument, Gigante could retrace
72-480: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Giacinto Gigante Giacinto Gigante was born on July 11, 1806, in Posillipo, Naples. He was the first son of Gaetano Gigante and Anna Maria Fatati. Encouraged by his father, who was also a painter, Gigante began his artistic education in 1818 and began producing landscapes and portraits. Among his early works
84-568: The Royal Institute of Fine Arts . Along with Achille Vianelli he was to be strongly influenced by a large colony of foreign painters then present in Naples including Huber and Pitloo. From Jakob Wilhelm Hüber , Gigante learnt watercolour technique and the use of the panoramic ‘ camera lucida ’ method. Via Huber he met the Dutch artist Anton Sminck van Pitloo , who became his teacher for
96-518: The Genovese crime family El Gigante, or Jorge Gonzáles , former basketball player and professional wrestler Media [ edit ] Gigante (film) , a 2009 Uruguayan film Sábado Gigante ("Giant Saturday"), an American Spanish-language TV program Other [ edit ] Gigante, Huila , Colombia Supermercados Gigante , a Mexican supermarket chain See also [ edit ] Gigantes (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
108-514: The outline of a landscape on paper as a preliminary study. Having left Hüber, Gigante completed his course of study in 1821 under the guidance of Antonie Sminck Pitloo , a Dutch painter with an atelier in the neighborhood of Chiaia . Around 1826 he was living in Naples in Vicoletto del Vasto 15, with Van Pitloo, Carl Götzloff and Teodoro Duclère (Duclerc). He was related by marriage to Achille Vianelli . In 1837, Pitloo having died during
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132-712: Was an Italian painter of landscapes with genre scenes, often in watercolor. He was born in Porto Maurizio ; he moved as a child to Otranto , where his father was consul for the French government. In 1819, he moved to Naples , where he first worked in the Royal Topographic Office, where he met Giacinto Gigante . With Gigante, he began training first under Jakob Wilhelm Hüber , then in the Academy under Pitloo . He published (with Gigante and others)
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#1732790486085144-417: Was received commissions of Gaeta vistas from the court of Ferdinand II of Naples . Gigante died in Naples on November 29, 1876. Gigante was introduced to painting by his father Gaetano Gigante . His brothers Achille Gigante (1823–1846) and Ercole Gigante (1815–1860) also became landscape artists. He trained in the style of Jacob Philipp Hackert and was influenced by the technical drawing carried out at
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