Giuseppe Crestadoro

Giuseppe Crestadoro , also Cristadoro (* around 1711 in Palermo , † 1808 in Messina ) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque in Sicily .

Life

Crestadoro was born the son of a goldsmith in Palermo, where his father apprenticed to Vito D'Anna . In 1743 he took up residence in Messina, where he first restored the frescoes by Litterio Paladini in the Santa Barbara basilica. Numerous orders for frescoes and panel paintings followed , mainly in the east of the island.

Most of Crestadoro's work in Messina was lost in the great earthquake of 1908 .

Works

• Ballroom of the Palazzo Ajutamicristo ( Palermo ): ceiling fresco “Glory of the virtuous Prince”
• Chiesa San Antonio Abate (Palermo): frescoes "Stories about S. Anthony and the Virgin Mary" (1781)
• Palazzo Canalotti and Villa Ajroldi (Palermo): ceiling frescoes
• Chiesa SS. Annunziata ( Sortino ): frescoes "Annunciation"
• Chiesa San Giovanni Evangelista (Sortino): two panel paintings
• Chiesa San Sebastiano (Sortino): frescoes
• Chiesa San Antonio Abbate (Sortino): frescoes (1778)
• Cathedral ( Syracuse ): (panel paintings)
• Chiesa dell'Abadia di Gangi (Syracuse): frescoes
• Chiesa San Francesco (Syracuse): Dome frescoes (inscribed “Joseph Cristadoro Panus pinxit 1777”)
• Chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore ( Ispica ): Fresco "Moses receives the tablets of the law" (1783)
• Chiesa San Pietro ( Agrigento ): frescoes with scenes from the life of the apostles
• Collegio die Filippini (Agrigento): panel
• Chiesa San Sebastiano ( Ferla ): panel “Martyrdom of S. Sebastian”
• Chiesa San Antonio (Ferla): frescoes
• Chiesa di S. Antonio Abate ( Cassaro ): main altarpiece
• Parrocchia Maria SS. Ausiliatrice (Monteroni di Lecce): panel
• Santuario di San Giacomo Apostolo Maggiore ( Capizzi ): frescoes
• San Francesco di Paolo (Messina): panel "Holy Family and St. Anthony of Padua"
• Chiesa Santa Teresa ( Messina ): panel paintings
• Chiesa San Giuseppe ( Ragusa ): Panel "Trinity and Angels" (1801)
• Cathedral, Cappella dell'Assunta ( Reggio Calabria ): panel "Assumption of Mary"

literature

• Ivana Bruno: Crestadoro, Giuseppe. In: Caterina Napoleone (ed.): Enciclopedia della Sicilia. Ricci, Parma 2006.
• Enrico Mauceri : Cristadoro, Giuseppe . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 8 : Coutan-Delattre . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 112 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Jakob Philipp Hackert : Memorie De 'Pittori Messinesi E Degli Esteri che in Messina fiorirono dal secolo XII. fino al secolo XIX. Giuseppe Pappalardo, Messina 1821, pp. 399-400 ( babel.hathitrust.org ).

Web links

• Giuseppe Crestadoro: Mosè riceve le Tavole della Legge.