Antonio Manno

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Antonio Manno (* 1739 in Palermo ; † January 13, 1810 ibid) was an Italian classicist painter in Sicily .

Life

Antonio Manno was initially a student of a lesser known painter named Gambino . In order to continue his artistic education, Manno went to Rome , where he was only accepted into the Accademia di San Luca years later, on September 7, 1788 . Back in Palermo he went to Vito d'Anna , with whom he painted the large fresco cycle in the SS. Salvatore of Palermo in 1763 and 1765.

After Vito d'Anna's death in 1769, Antonio Manno and his brothers Francesco , Vincenzo (1760–1821) and Giuseppe founded a flourishing painter's workshop in Palermo. One of his main works, the frescoes in Palazzo Belmonte Riso (1781–1787), was destroyed by Allied bombing during the Second World War.

Works

  • Accademia di San Luca (Rome): Self-Portrait (1789)
  • Palazzo Fatta (Palermo) Ceiling fresco “The virtue of the family” (1771)
  • Chiesa S. Maria la Nova (Palermo): panel “Madonna di Monserraro with S. Ninfa, S. Biagio, S. Antonio Abate and S. Sebastiano”
  • Museo Diocesano di Palermo : Panel painting “Descent from the Cross” (from the Oratorio di Bianchi (Palermo))
  • Palermo Cathedral Cappella Pietro Geremia: panel “Consecration of Beato Geremis” (1785)
  • Chiesa S. Orsola (Palermo): panel “Christ in Limbo” (1778)
  • Chiesa S. Giuseppe dei Teatini (Palermo): Fresco “Apostle”
  • Monasterio di Santa Rosalia ( Santo Stefano Quisquina ): frescoes in the monastery church, shared with Vincenzo
  • Chiesa Madre (Santo Stefano Quisquina): frescoes in the main apse
  • Cathedral of St. Paul (Mdina) on Malta: ceiling frescoes (1794), together with Vincenzo
  • Duomo di San Giorgio Ragusa : Altarpiece
  • Chiesa Madre ( Carini ): “Marian Wedding”
  • Chiesa S. Caterina (Carini): panel painting “Miracles of S. Caterina”
  • Chiesa di Santa Maria dell'Arco ( Noto ) panel “Offering in the Temple”
  • Cathedral of S. Lorenzo ( Trapani ): frescoes (1800, probably only by Vincenzo)

literature

  • Manno, Antonio . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 25 .
  • Citti Siracusano: La pittura del Settecento in Sicilia. De Luca Editore, Rome 1986, ISBN 88-7813-001-X .
  • Giuseppe Antoci, Francesco Brancato, Stefano Brancato (eds.): I monumenti del tardo barocco di Ragusa. Nonsolografica, Ragusa 2003.
  • Barbara Mancuso: Manno, Antonio . In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani . tape 69 : Mangiabotti – Marconi. . Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2007 ( treccani.it ).

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personal data
SURNAME Manno, Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sicilian painter and fresco painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1739
PLACE OF BIRTH Palermo
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1810
Place of death Palermo