Antonio Barbalonga

Antonio Barbalonga or Barbalunga , also called Antonio Alberti , (* 1600 in Messina ; † November 2, 1649 ibid) was an Italian Baroque painter .

Life

Barbalonga was a member of the influential Pentadattilo noble family in Messina. He received his first artistic training in his hometown from Giovanni Simone Commandé (1580–1634). Later Barbalonga went to Rome to the workshop of Domenico Zampieri, called Domenichino , who stayed in the Tiber city until 1630 and whose painting style he appropriated. In Rome he created panels and altar leaves for several churches. In 1633 Barbalonga became a member of the Accademia di San Luca .

In the same year he returned to Sicily and developed a lively artistic activity in the Messina area. Here he founded a painting school where numerous artists were trained. His most important students were Giovanni Angelo Canini (1617–1666), Onofrio Gabrielli (1616–1706), Agostino Scilla (1629–1700), Domenico Maroli (1612–1676) and Bartolomeo Tricomi .

His main work from the first time after his return is the "Conversion of Paul" in the monastery church of S. Anna in Messina. For the public gallery in Messina he painted a series of pictures that were brought to Spain by the Conte di S. Stefano.

plant

• Sant'Andrea della Valle (Rome) painting “Assumption of Mary” and “ Ecstasy and stigmatization of Francis of Assisi ”
• San Silvestro al Quirinale (Rome): Painting "Santi Andrea Avallini e Gaetano Tiene"
• Chiesa e Convento di Santa Anna (Messina): painting “Conversion of the Apostle Paul ”
• S. Gregorio (Messina) panel “San Gregorio”
• San Michele (Messina): painting of the Assumption
• Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista (Messina): painting “Madonna del Rosario”
• Chiesa San Paolo (Messina): painting “Paul”
• Chiesa di Santa Caterina d'Alessandria ( Taormina ): painting “Madonna and Saints”
• Museo Regionale di Messina Painting “ Pietà ” (1634) from the Chiesa San Filippo Neri and a “Portrait of P. Alberti”
• Museo del Prado ( Madrid ): “Santa Agata”
• Chiesa S.Nicola, ( Giampilieri Superiore ) painting “ Descent from the Cross ”
• other works of art can be found in Milazzo and in the following Roman churches: San Silvestro in Arcione, Santa Croce e San Bonaventura the Lucchesi and Santa Maria della Vittoria

literature

• Barbalonga, Antonio . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 2 : Antonio da Monza-Bassan . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 460–461 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Michael Bryan: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers. Biographical and Critical. Volume 1: A - K. New edition, revised and enlarged, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Walter Armstrong. Bell, London 1886.
• By a Lady (ie: Maria Farquhar): Biographical Catalog of the principal Italian Painters, with a Table of the contemporary Schools of Italy. Designed as a Hand-Book to the Picture Gallery. = Dictionary of Italian Painters. Edited by Ralph N. Wornum. Murray, London 1855.

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