Giacomo del Pò

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Giacomo Del Pò: ceiling painting "Allegory of Fame" ("Apotheosis of a Hero"), 1720. Vienna, Upper Belvedere, formerly Antichambre
"Allegory of Fame" (excerpt)

Giacomo del Pò (born December 29, 1654 in Rome , † November 16, 1726 in Naples ) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque .

Life

Del Pò was initially a student of his father, the painter and engraver Pietro del Pò . Then he went to Nicolas Poussin's workshop in Rome. At the age of twenty he became a member of the Accademia di San Luca on June 17, 1674 .

From 1683 he is recorded in Naples, where he worked together with the painter Francesco di Maria (1623–1690) on frescoes in aristocratic palaces. He also worked as a set designer for the Teatro di San Bartolommeo.

Initially committed to the style of Poussin, he switched to the Neapolitan Baroque in Naples, which was founded by Luca Giordano and continued by his student Francesco Solimena .

In 1720, two years after he had taken up residence in Vienna, Prince Eugene of Savoy commissioned del Pò with three large ceiling paintings for the upper Belvedere .

His sister Teresa del Pò worked as a miniaturist, the stepbrother Andrea del Pò is also said to have been a painter. His students were Gaetano Martoriello , Antonio Massaro and Luigi Lanzi.

Giacomo del Pò : "Flora". London, privately owned

Works (selection)

Works in Rome

  • Chiesa di Sant'Angelo in Pescheria (Rome): 2 altarpieces
  • Chiesa di Santa Marta (Rome). Panel painting

Works in Naples

Works in other places

  • Sorrento Cathedral : "Assumption of Mary with the Apostles Philip and James the Younger" (1722)
  • Museo Correale of Terranova: altarpieces “Giovanni Grillo during the conquest of Sorrento”, “The Plague of Sorrento” as well as “Madonna, Child and Saint Gaetano” and “Flight into Egypt” (1685) (from the Basilica di Sant'Antonino in Sorrento )
  • Chiesa di San Michele ( Anacapri ): "The Birth of Christ" and "Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane"
  • Pinacoteca Civico in the Palazzo Pianetti ( Jesi ): "Trinity, Madonna and Guardian Angel"

literature

  • Vita Di Giacomo Del Po 'Pittore, Architetto, e Ingeniere, E Di Teresa Del Po' Sua Sorella Miniatrice. In: Bernardo de 'Dominici: Vite dei pittori, scultori ed architetti napoletani. Volume 3. Ricciardi, Naples 1745, pp. 496-517 (Italian, uni-goettingen.de ) “ Nacque Giacomo del Pò nell'anno 1654., alcuni dicono a Palermo, altri in Roma, ed altri in Napoli… ” (German : "Giacomo del Pò was born in 1654. Some say in Palermo, others in Rome and others in Naples").
  • Pò, Giacomo del . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 165 .
  • Nicola Spinosa: Pittura Napoletana del Settecento, dal Barocco al Rococò . Electa, Naples 1988, ISBN 88-435-2406-2 .
  • Donald Rabiner: Del Pò, Giacomo. In: Massimiliano Pavan (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Volume 38: Della Volpe-Denza. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1990 ( treccani.it ):
  • Francesco Abbate: Storia dell'arte nell'Italia meridionale Vol.Donzelli Editore, Naples 2009, ISBN 978-88-6036-413-5 .
  • Augusto Russo: Giacomo Del Po a Sorrento . N. Longobardi editore, Castellammare di Stabia 2009, ISBN 978-88-8090-296-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Del Pò, Giacomo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1654
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1726
Place of death Naples