Andrea Malinconico

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Miracle of St. Teresa in a side chapel (1st right) by Gesù delle Monache , Naples

Andrea Malinconico ( June 3, 1635 in Naples - October 4, 1698 ibid) was an Italian Baroque painter from the Neapolitan school and the oldest member of a family of painters. He was the father of the much better known Nicola Malinconico .

history

Andrea was born to Aniello Malinconico and Isabella d'Apice. When he was baptized in the Neapolitan parish della Carità (today: San Liborio) he was given the name "Domenico Andrea". According to the testimony of Bernardo De Dominici (and most of the following sources), Andrea did his apprenticeship in the workshop of Massimo Stanzione and was "one of the best students" of the master. In Malinconico's secured works, however, there is particularly an influence of Andrea Vaccaro , and possibly also of Francesco Guarino , Bernardo Cavallino , Anthony van Dyck and Charles Mellin (the latter was in Naples in the 1640s).

Andrea Malinconico married Antonia De Popoli, sister of the painter Giacinto De Popoli, on July 15, 1658. The couple had six children together, two of them, Oronzo and Nicola also became painters. Since Andrea Vaccaro and his son Nicola were witnesses at the wedding, and because of their stylistic affinities, Prota-Giurleo suspected that Malinconico might have been a student of Vaccaro and not of Stanzione.

Death of St. Teresa , Gesù delle Monache (1st chapel on the right), Naples

Malinconico mainly painted religious paintings for churches in Naples and the surrounding area. a. in Pio Monte della Misericordia , in Gesù Vecchio , Girolamini and in the monastery of Suor Orsola Benincasa. He also seems to have hired himself out as a portraitist, at least it has been proven that he painted a portrait of the Prince of Torella in 1670 (lost) and his last documented picture is also a portrait of the Prince of Roccafiorita from Palermo (1696, whereabouts unknown).

In the last two decades of his life and work, his style approached more modern contemporaries such as Luca Giordano and, according to Bortolotti, almost seems "... like an anticipation of Francesco Solimena ".

Malinconico's main work is the pictorial decoration of the Neapolitan church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli , on which he worked between 1679 and the end of 1687, and where, with the exception of the main altarpiece by Andrea Vaccaro and the dome decoration by Giovan Battista Beinaschi , he created most of the paintings, including one Four -part cycle of Mary on the ceiling, and depictions of the four evangelists and four church fathers , as well as of Peter and Paul . He also painted the paintings of the first two chapels on the right and the first chapel on the left, the altarpiece in the right transept and two pictures in the left transept, as well as the two paintings next to the high altar. Most of these works were described in detail and with obvious delight by De Dominici.

When Andrea died on October 4, 1698, he left his six children with a sum of 894 ducats.

Works

Susanna and the old people

In contrast to his son Nicola, Andrea Malinconico is a little noticed painter of the "second row". The following is a list of documented works (after Bortolotti).

  • Rebecca at the fountain , Pinacoteca provinciale, Bari
  • Penitent Magdalena , private collection, Rome (signed "AM")
  • Susanna ei vecchioni , in the depot in the Museo del Sannio, Benevento (signed)
  • St. Joseph with the baby Jesus and a picture of the cross , in the church of the monastery Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples (signed)
  • Madonna della Purità , Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples
  • Assumption of the Virgin , ceiling painting in Santa Maria delle Grazie in Calvizzano (signed and dated 1676)
  • four images ( Nativity of Mary , Mary Immaculate , the Trinity with Saints Rosalia and Carlo Borromeo , Madonna with 5 saints ), parish church of Paceco (Trapani)
  • numerous paintings (including: Saints Peter and Paul on the entrance wall, 4 church fathers and 4 evangelists ; 4-part cycle of Mary, among others), in Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Naples (1679–1687)
  • Annunciation , Real Casa dell'Annunziata, Naples, 1687 (signed)

In addition to these preserved works, De Dominici also mentions a whole series of paintings by Andrea Malinconico that have meanwhile disappeared or are lost (?), And others. a. in San Giuseppe dei Ruffi and eleven works in San Francesco delle Monache (near Santa Chiara), as well as a cycle of pictures in Santa Maria della Sapienza.

literature

  • Bernardo De Dominici: Vite de'pittori, scultori ed architetti napoletani , III, (1742–43) Naples 1844, pp. 293–295
  • Luca Bortolotti: "MALINCONICO, Andrea" , in: Dizionario biografico degli italiani , Volume 68, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome, 2007 (seen on April 12, 2019; Italian)
  • Roberta Bellucci: Andrea Malinconico e il secondo seicento a Napoli , Arte'm Srl, 2015, ISBN 88-569-0470-5 . (On Amazon , as seen April 12, 2019. Italian)
  • F. Bologna: “Andrea Malinconico in Sicilia. E anche qualche chiarimento sul suo esordio “, in: Studi in onore di Michele d'Elia, ed. v. C. Gelao, Matera 1996, pp. 353-365;
  • GB D'Addosio: Documenti inediti di artisti napoletani dei secoli XVI e XVII (1920), Naples, 1991, p. 78
  • M. Izzo: "Una Assunta di Andrea Malinconico a Calvizzano", in: Napoli nobilissima , s. 5, IV (2003), pp. 21-26.
  • E. Nappi: "La chiesa di Santa Maria dei Miracoli", in: Napoli nobilissima , s. 3, XXI (1982), pp. 196-218
  • MA Pavone: Pittori napoletani del primo Settecento. Fonti e documenti , Naples, 1997, pp. 112-122 & 390-413
  • Ulisse Prota-Giurleo: Pittori napoletani del Seicento , Naples, 1953, pp. 34-39

Web links

Commons : Andrea Malinconico  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • 3 pictures by Andrea Malinconico on "beweb" (as of April 12, 2019)
  • Andrea Malinconico on "artnet.de" (accessed April 12, 2019)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Luca Bortolotti: “MALINCONICO, Andrea” , in: Dizionario biografico degli italiani , Volume 68, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome, 2007 (viewed April 12, 2019; Italian )
  2. ↑ "" ... fra i più bravi allievi che uscirono dalla numerosa e fiorita scuola del cavalier Massimo Stanzione "" (Bernardo De Dominici 1742-43, p. 293), here after: Luca Bortolotti: "MALINCONICO, Andrea" , in : Dizionario biografico degli italiani , Volume 68, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome, 2007
  3. ↑ Bernardo De Dominici: Vite de'pittori, scultori ed architetti napoletani , III, (1742-43) Naples 1844, p. 294 f. Here after Luca Bortolotti: "MALINCONICO, Andrea" , in: Dizionario biografico degli italiani , Volume 68, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome, 2007.
  4. ↑ In the Sala degli Angeli or Chiesa dell'Eremo ai Monti . Photos on "napoligrafia" , accessed April 12, 2019.
  5. ↑ Bernardo De Dominici: Vite de'pittori, scultori ed architetti napoletani , III, (1742-43) Naples 1844, p. 293 (S. Francesco d. M.) and p. 294 (S. Maria d. Sapienza). Here after Luca Bortolotti: "MALINCONICO, Andrea" , in: Dizionario biografico degli italiani , Volume 68, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome, 2007.
  6. ↑ Unfortunately the photos are of poor quality
  7. ↑ Most of the pictures are only attributed.
personal data
SURNAME Malinconico, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Baroque painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1635
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1698
Place of death Naples