Domenico Guargena

Domenico Guargena , religious name Feliciano da Messina , (* 1610 in Messina ; † November 13, 1663 ibid) was a Capuchin and painter in Sicily .

Life

Domenico Guargena received his artistic training from the Flemish painter Abraham Casembroot in Messina, where he was a classmate of Filippo Giannetto and Andrea Suppa . When he joined the Capuchins is unknown. He spent some time in Bologna , then in Venice and finally in Rome , where he learned the painting style of Guido Reni . In Sicily he mostly worked in religious churches of the Capuchins. He was also called Cappuccini di Raffaello ("Capuchin Raphael ") because of his classical painting style, which he trained on Reni .

Works

Chiesa dei Cappuccini ( Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto ): Holy Family and St. Felix
Cathedral (Barcellona): Holy Family
Santuario di Gibilmanna : a polyptych

literature

Jakob Philipp Hackert : Domenico Guargena. In: Memorie De 'Pittori Messinesi e Degli Esteri che in Messina fiorirono dal secolo XII. fino al secolo XIX. Pappalardo, Messina 1821, pp. 155–156 (Italian, babel.hathitrust.org contains a printing error in the date of death, which is given there as November 13, 1763).
Francesco Susinno: Le Vite de 'Pittori Messinesi (= Università di Messina. Pubblicazioni dell' Istituto di storia dell 'arte medioevale e moderna. Volume 1). Testo, introduzione e note bibliografiche a cura di Valentino Martinelli. Le Monnier, Florence 1960.
Guargena, Domenico (monastery name Fra Feliciano da Messina) . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 172 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Individual evidence

↑ Jakob Philipp Hackert: Domenico Guargena. In: Memorie De 'Pittori Messinesi e Degli Esteri che in Messina fiorirono dal secolo XII. fino al secolo XIX. P. 156.

personal data
SURNAME	Guargena, Domenico
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fra Feliciano da Messina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian religious and painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1610
PLACE OF BIRTH	Messina
DATE OF DEATH	November 13, 1663
Place of death	Messina

[1] Jakob Philipp Hackert: Domenico Guargena. In: Memorie De 'Pittori Messinesi e Degli Esteri che in Messina fiorirono dal secolo XII. fino al secolo XIX. P. 156.