Alejandro Ciccarelli

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Alejandro Ciccarelli Manzoni (born January 25, 1811 in Naples , † May 5, 1879 in Santiago de Chile ) was an Italian-Chilean painter .

Ciccarelli studied first at the Instituto de Bellas Artes in Naples, later in Rome under the influence of the classicist Vincenzo Camuccini . In 1843 he met the Brazilian Emperor Dom Pedro II , who hired him as court painter and teacher to Empress Doña María Teresa de Borbón .

He became one of the leading artists in Brazil and became known beyond the borders of the country through his reform of the art academy in Rio de Janeiro . At the invitation of the Chilean consul Carlos Hochkolf , he founded the Academia de Pintura y Escultura in Santiago in 1849 , which he headed until 1869. His successor was Ernst Kirchbach . His students included Nicolás Guzmán , Antonio Smith , Manuel Antonio Caro , Pascual Ortega Portales , Miguel Campos , Pedro Lira Rencoret , Cosme San Martín , Onofre Jarpa Labra , Manuel Tapia and Agustina Gutiérrez Salazar .

In 1848 Ciccarelli was appointed honorary professor at the Real Instituto de Bellas Artes in Italy. In the following year Pedro II honored him for his artistic contribution to the art exhibition in Rio de Janeiro as a knight of the Ordem Imperial de Cristo . From 1853, Ciccarelli was a Chilean citizen. Two of his most famous oil paintings ( El Árbol Seco and Filoctetes Abandonado ) are in the possession of the Chilean Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes , Santiago de Chile, and three more are in the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes , Rio de Janeiro.

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  • El Árbol Seco , undated, oil on canvas, 39 × 36 cm, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile

  • Rio de Janeiro , 1844, oil on canvas, 82.3 × 117.5 cm, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo

  • Retrato da Condessa de Aljezur , 1848, oil on canvas, 91 × 73 cm, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro

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SURNAME Ciccarelli, Alejandro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ciccarelli Manzoni, Alejandro (full name); Cicarelli, Alessandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-Chilean painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1879
Place of death Santiago de Chile