Giacomo Di Chirico - Wikipedia Giacomo Di Chirico From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Giacomo Di Chirico self portrait Born (1844-01-27)27 January 1844 Venosa, Basilicata Died 26 December 1883(1883-12-26) (aged 39) Naples, Campania Nationality Italian Known for painting Giacomo Ernesto Eduardo Di Chirico (27 January 1844 – 26 December 1883) was an Italian painter. Together with Domenico Morelli and Filippo Palizzi, he was one of the most elite Neapolitan artists of the 19th century. Contents 1 Biography 2 Artworks 3 Honor 4 Notes 5 Bibliography 6 External links Biography[edit] Giacomo Di Chirico was born in Venosa into a carpenter's family, the younger son of Luigi and Caterina Savino. In 1847, when Di Chirico was barely 3 years old, his father Luigi died, leaving the family impoverished. He attended a private school for boys from deprived families under the supervision of priest Giuseppe Gianturco, the brother of politician Emanuele Gianturco. He began working at a barbershop to support his family economically but had become passionate about his painting hobby, after learning basic art techniques from his older brother, Nicola, a sculptor. Di Chirico had begun to create portraits of his customers, who expressed admiration for his work, and local citizens who saw his portraits began to request them. Feeling stimulated from such interest and their appreciation, Di Chirico decided to become a professional painter. He obtained a subsidy salary from the municipality of Venosa, was enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples[1] and graduated after he had demonstrated optimal results from the studies. In 1865, Di Chirico became a disciple of Francesco de Sanctis, who taught him lessons in literature for two years. Between 1868 and 1871, Di Chirico refined his artistic technique while living in Rome, further strengthening his friendship with Domenico Morelli and Filippo Palizzi. He returned to Naples to open an art studio. During his career, Di Chirico created masterpieces such as Buoso da Duera, Quinto Orazio Flacco, Corteggiamento and Donna lucana. Sposalizio in Basilicata, one of his best known paintings, was exposed in Paris (1877), Vienna (1879) and Munich (1882). It was purchased by the French merchant Adolphe Goupil. Di Chirico's works were exposed at the Goupil & Cie in Paris. He received the title Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy from Victor Emmanuel II. Between 1877 and 1878, Di Chirico was made an honorary professor at the Academy of Art in Naples. He spent August (Ferragosto) in Maiori, where he met his wife Emilia D’Amato. He remained with her for the rest of his life and they had a daughter named Maria. One of his pupils was Pietro Scoppetta. As his artistic career continued to reach new heights, so did the rise of his activity until 1882, when Di Chirico began to exhibit symptoms of mania, sleep deprivation and cachexia, a pattern of ailments that overlapped with the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh's illness. Di Chirico was confined to the Provincial lunatic asylum for his mental illness. In the asylum, his physical health continued to deteriorate, and he died during treatment in Naples in 1883 at age 39. Artworks[edit] Buoso da Duera Sposalizio in Basilicata Donna lucana Horace Il ministrante Honor[edit] • Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy, Kingdom of Italy[2] Notes[edit] ^ http://www.accademianapoli.it/istituzioni-e-societa/[permanent dead link] Academy of Art in Naples ^ Enrico Castelnuovo, La Pittura in Italia: l'Ottocento, Volume 2, p. 805 Bibliography[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Giacomo Di Chirico. Richard Muther, The history of modern painting, Volume 3, J.M. Dent & Co., 1907. Enrico Castelnuovo, La Pittura in Italia: l'Ottocento, Volume 2, Electa, 1991. External links[edit] https://web.archive.org/web/20110205072127/http://www.giacomodichirico.com/ (in English) Biografia di Giacomo Di Chirico Wedding of the Prefect of the Province of Basilicata in the South of Italy Authority control GND: 121750035 ISNI: 0000 0001 1558 0448 LCCN: no2009011243 RKD: 16694 SUDOC: 137977549 ULAN: 500053408 VIAF: 877475 WorldCat Identities: lccn-no2009011243 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Giacomo_Di_Chirico&oldid=996368005" Categories: 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Naples 1844 births 1883 deaths People from Venosa Academic art Hidden categories: All articles with dead external links Articles with dead external links from December 2019 Articles with permanently dead external links Use dmy dates from March 2020 Articles with hCards Pages using infobox artist with unknown parameters Commons category link from Wikidata Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with RKDartists identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with ULAN identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Languages Čeština Deutsch Ελληνικά Español Euskara Français Italiano Nederlands 日本語 Napulitano Norsk bokmål Русский Edit links This page was last edited on 26 December 2020, at 04:34 (UTC). 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