Fra Galgario
Fra Galgario (born as Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi , he also called himself Giuseppe and Vittore Ghislandi as a painter , born March 4, 1655 in Bergamo , † beginning of December 1743 ibid) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Baroque and early Rococo periods .
Life
Ghislandi's father Domenico (* around 1656–1672) was a painter of landscapes and frescoes . One of Fra Galgario's brothers was also a painter. Fra Galgario learned from Giacomo Cotta (1627–1689), Bartolomeo Bianchi . From 1675 he was in Venice , where he became a member (lay brother) of the Minorite Order of San Francesco di Paola and changed his name from Giuseppe to Vittore. With the exception of a stay in Milan from 1688 to 1691 (where he became friends with the German portrait painter Salomon Adler and worked for him), he stayed in Venice until 1702. There he was also a student of Sebastiano Bombelli . Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni invited him to Rome , which he turned down. In 1702 he joined the Paulaner Order and entered the Galgario Monastery in Bergamo under the name Fra Vittorio (known as the painter as Fra Galgario), but was also frequently in Milan. In 1717 he became a member of the Accademia Clementina in Bologna . He mainly portrayed noble families in the Bergamo area, which he seldom left, but also simple people and clergy. He enjoyed a European reputation, pictures of him came to Lisbon , Vienna (including Prince Eugene ), Paris (including Marshal Belle-Isle).
He continued the tradition of portrait painting in Bergamo from the 16th century (his model was in particular Giovanni Battista Moroni ). His portraits are distinguished by their realistic rendering.
gallery
Count Giovanni Secco Suardo with servants in Polish clothes , 1720, Bergamo, Accademia Carrara
Knight of the Order of Constantine , around 1737, Poldi Pezzoli Museum , Milan
Young painter , 1732, Bergamo, Accademia Carrara
priest
Clergyman , around 1732
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literature
- V. Bernardi: Il Pittore Fra Vittore Ghislandi da Galgario , Bergamo 1910.
- Selwyn Brinton: The Burlington Magazine. 1912.
- Ludwig Burchard : Ghislandi, Fra Vittore . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 566-569 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- C. Caversazzi: Fra Vittorio Ghislandi , Emporium, Volume 57, 1923.
- R. Cipriani, R. Longhi, G. Testori: I pittori della realtà in Lombardia. Milan 1953, exhibition catalog.
- Francesco Frangi: Ghislandi, Vittore, detto Fra Galgario. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 54: Ghiselli-Gimma. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2000.
- Nicola Ivanoff: Kindlers Malereilexikon. under Giuseppe Ghislandi
- Francesco Rossi: Ghislandi, Vittore . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 53, Saur, Munich a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22793-6 , p. 88.
- Daniel Spanke, Teste capricciose. Vittore Ghislandi and the art of invention in portraits. The Capriccio as an Art Principle, Cologne 2006, exhibition catalog Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, pp. 103-109, ISBN 88-8118-144-4 .
- Francesco Maria Tassi: Vite de 'Pittori, Scultori e Architetti Bergamaschi. 2 volumes, Bergamo 1793, especially volume 2, pp. 57–74 ( [1] (PDF) of the Bibliotheca Hertziana )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Other names are Frate dal Calgario (different spelling of Galgario), Fra Paulotto from the name of his order, Fra Vittore Ghislandi
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fra Galgario |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ghislandi, Giuseppe Vittore (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1655 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bergamo , Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1743 |
| Place of death | Bergamo , Italy |