Ettore Tito
Ettore Tito (born December 17, 1859 in Castellammare di Stabia , † June 26, 1941 in Venice ) was a Venetian painter and sculptor. He mainly created works such as portraits, vedutas and landscapes, but also mythological and religious works that were inspired by the works of the later Republic of Venice .
life and work
Ettore Tito was born in Campania in 1859 as the son of an Apulian and a Venetian mother . In 1867 the Tito family, who still had roots in the lagoon city, moved to Venice, where at the age of 12 Ettore attended the Accademia di belle arti di Venezia with Pompeo Molmenti , whose pupil he became. At the Accademia, he won first prize in the Pittura di Storia section with La presa del castello d'Arezzo da parte del duca Valentino .
In 1887 he presented the painting Pescheria vecchia as a work for the Biennale , which is now in the Roman Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna e contemporanea , which it acquired at the time. He had already received orders from the Dutch painter Van Haanen in Naples . Then he went to Rome, where he perfected his craft at the French Academy . In 1895 he returned to Venice, but because of the war , he lived in Rome again from 1915, where he received orders for the Villa Berlinghieri . During his second visit to Venice he presented Sulla laguna at the Biennale , which is now in Ca 'Pesaro ; In 1901 he came up with Sorgente , a female sculpture. With La nascità di Venere , the birth of Venus, Tito finally switched to mythology in 1903 , but was also influenced by French Impressionism .
After the collapse of the bell tower on St. Mark's Square, after it was rebuilt, he painted L'inaugurazione del campanile di San Marco , in 1912, a monumental painting, oil on canvas, with the dimensions 300 × 320 cm. In 1914 he got his own exhibition at the Biennale, in Rome he exhibited 63 of his works in the Galleria Pesaro . His self-portrait ended up in the Uffizi , in the Collezione del Corridoio Vasariano .
In 1933 he was commissioned to paint the ceiling of the Scalzi Church ( Santa Maria di Nazareth ), where he replaced a work by Giambattista Tiepolo that had been destroyed by a bomb in 1917 during the First World War. There, however, he replaced the Tiepolo work Il Trasporto della Santa Casa di Loreto with his own opus La Gloria di Maria trionfante sull'eresia di Nestorio dopo il trionfo del Concilio di Efeso . His son Luigi, who was also a painter, and Giovanni Maioli helped him with the work, which measured more than 100 m² .
Tito received a long series of commissions, including for the Palazzo D'Anna Viaro Martinengo Volpi di Misurata (today Palazzo Vendramin-Calergi ), for Giuseppe Volpi , but also for the Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza , where he portrayed events from the history of the Loredan family including a portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan . Tito maintained good contacts with the British-American colony in Venice. He left some caricatures in Isabella Stewart Gardner's guest book . In 1936 he received one last personal exhibition on the occasion of the 20th Biennale. He took part there for the last time in 1940, where he exhibited his work I maestri veneziani .
Tito taught at the Accademia di Belle Arti from 1894 to 1927, and as a sculptor and painter created numerous works in the traditional and popular style of the era. Some of them can be found in the Collezione Antonveneta. In 1897 he won first prize at the Biennale di Venezia, similarly in Vienna and Munich and in Paris, where he won gold medals in 1900. In 1926 he became a member of the royal Accademia d'Italia , in 1929 "Accademico d'Italia".
Initially attracted by Verism , especially by Giacomo Favretto , Tito soon oriented himself towards the masters of the Cinque, Sei and Settecento, i.e. the period between the 16th and 18th centuries. He relied on the accepted decorative shapes and lively colors. He was also influenced by Nordic and Japanese artists.
Tito, who died in 1941, was buried in a chapel in the Scalzi Church.
literature
- Bettagono Alessandro, Fondazione “Giorgio Cini” : Ettore Tito, 1859-1941 , exhibition catalog, Electa, 1998.
- Margherita Sarfatti: Ettore Tito , in Emporium, April 1905, pp. 251-264.
Web links
- Art. Tito, Ettore , treccani.it
- Vittorio Pajusco: Ettore Tito (Castellammare di Stabia, Napoli 1859 - Venezia 1941) , website Arte Ricerca
Remarks
- ↑ Francesca Cagianelli, Dario Matteoni: La Belle Epoque. Arte in Italia, 1880-1915 , Silvana, 2008, p. 236.
- ^ Carlo Pirovano: La Pittura in Italia , Vols. 1-2: Il Novecento , Electa, 1992, p. 847.
- ^ Ines Lamprecht: The Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza in Venice (= Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani Studi, New Series, Volume XI), Diss. Münster, Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2014, p. 74. (accessed via De Gruyter Online).
- ↑ Silvestra Bietoletti, Michele Dantini: L'Ottocento italiano. La storia, gli artisti, le opere , Giunti, 2002, p. 370.
- ^ Warren Adelson: Sargent's Venice , Yale University Press, 2006, p. 212.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tito, Ettore |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Venetian painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Castellammare di Stabia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 26, 1941 |
| Place of death | Venice |