Giacomo Ceruti

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Giacomo Ceruti: self-portrait , Pinacoteca di Brera , Milan

Giacomo Antonio Melchiorre Ceruti (born October 13, 1698 in Milan ; † August 28, 1767 ibid) was an Italian late Baroque painter . He is also known as pitocchetto (little beggar) because of his numerous pictures of poor people from the people, beggars and farmers.

biography

Woman with spindle and winemaker , Castello Sforzesco , Milan

Very little is known about Ceruti's origins, youth and education. His father was a certain Giuseppe Ceruti. He was married to a Matilde De Angelis, with whom he had several children. His first known work is a portrait of Conte Fenaroli , signed and dated 1724. He was in Brescia around 1728 and in Venice in 1736 , where he painted several paintings for Marshal JM von der Schulenburg. From 1737 to 1741 or 1742 he can be traced back to Padua : Here he created a. a. for the Basilica di S. Antonio an altarpiece with the baptism of Saint Giustina , and for Santa Lucia (today: Corpus Domini) the image for the main altar Madonna and Child and Saints San Rocco and Lucia . Between 1743 and 1746 Ceruti lived in Piacenza, then in Brescia, where he a. a. worked for the Lechi family. In 1757 he was in Milan.

Giacomo Ceruti created works in various genres, altarpieces , portraits , still lifes and genre paintings . His achievements in the field of religious painting are generally considered to be average, and his still lifes are considered good. He is remembered above all for his outstanding genre pictures of beggars, farmers, vagabonds, poor children and women from the people, which he painted completely unadorned and which earned him his nickname il Pitocchetto . These works are characterized by an extraordinary realism in the 18th century, even if there were definitely some predecessors or models, such as the Le Nain brothers in France , Bartolomé Esteban Murillo in Spain with his poor children, in Italy himself Giuseppe Maria Crespi and up to to a certain extent also Caravaggio or the Bamboccianti . Ceruti was also an excellent portraitist with interesting portraits such as that of a cellist ( KHM Vienna), a woman with a dog ( Metropolitan Museum , New York) or a smoking man with a turban (private collection) .

gallery

  • Women making lace , private collection

  • Boy with a Basket , 1736, Pinacoteca di Brera , Milan

  • Spinner , Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia

  • Meeting in the forest , Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia

  • Dwarf , private collection

  • Little beggar and spinner , private collection

  • Sleeping pilgrim

  • The Laundress , 1735, Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo , Brescia

  • Three beggars

  • Children playing cards (also in the evening on the piazza ), 1730, Palazzo Madama , Turin

  • Woman with Dog , 1740s, Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York

  • Boy with basket and fish

  • Still life with a hen, peel and onion

  • Still life with bread, nuts and wine , 1750s, private collection

  • Donna Alba Regina del Ferro

  • portrait

  • Man with Violoncello ( Giovanni Battista Cirri ), 1745–1750, KHM , Vienna

  • Portrait of a Young Nun , ca.1730, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan

  • Smoking man in a turban , around 1740, private collection

literature

  • Ceruti, Giacomo , in: Lexikon der Kunst , Vol. 3, Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen 1994, p. 142.
  • Vittorio Caprara: Ceruti, Giacomo Antonio, detto il Pitocchetto , in: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 24 , 1980, online , seen 25 August 2018 (Italian).
  • G. Fiocco: Giacomo Ceruti a Padova , in: Bolletino d'arte , XXIX, 1935, pp. 139-165.
  • Mina Gregori: Giacomo Ceruti , Cinisello Balsamo 1982.
  • Francesco Frangi & Alessandro Morandotti: Giacomo Ceruti 1698–1767. Popolo e nobiltà alla vigilia dell'età dei Lumi , Milano: Robilant + Voena con Skira, 2013 (Italian).
  • Filippo Piazza (ed.): La realtà dello sguardo: ritratti di Giacomo Ceruti in Valle Camonica , Milan 2017 (Italian).
  • Daniele Radini Tedeschi: Pittura a Brescia e nelle Valli , Rome 2011 (Italian).
  • John T. Spike: Giuseppe Maria Crespi and the Emergence of Genre Painting in Italy , Fort Worth: Kimball Museum of Art, 1986, pp. 66-67 (English).

Web links

Commons : Giacomo Ceruti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vittorio Caprara: "CERUTI, Giacomo Antonio, detto il Pitocchetto", in: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 24 , 1980, online , seen on August 25, 2018 (Italian)
  2. ↑ Vittorio Caprara: "CERUTI, Giacomo Antonio, ditto Pitocchetto" ... 1980 online
  3. ↑ Reproductions in Fiocco, 1968, pp. 208–212. Here after: Vittorio Caprara: "CERUTI, Giacomo Antonio, detto il Pitocchetto", ... 1980, online
personal data
SURNAME Ceruti, Giacomo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ceruti, Giacomo Antonio Melchiorre (full name); Pitocchetto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter of the late baroque
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1698
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1767
Place of death Milan