Giuseppe Rapisardi

Giuseppe Rapisardi (born January 15, 1799 in Catania ; † April 8, 1853 ibid) was an Italian painter between neoclassicism and romanticism in Sicily .

Life

Rapisardi was a student of Matteo Desiderato . His artistic focus was portrait painting. In addition, he also created paintings and frescoes with mostly religious content, which were created exclusively in the Catania area. His students include his son Michele Rapisardi and Giuseppe Sciuti .

Giuseppe Rapisardi : "Holy Family with the Johannesknaben" (1841). Altarpiece in the Santa Lucia (Licodia Eubea)

Works (selection)

• Chiesa di San Giuliano ( Catania ): dome fresco
• Chiesa di San Francesco d'Assisi all'Immacolata (Catania): Ecstasy of San Giuseppe da Copertino
• Duomo di Sant'Isidoro Agricola ( Giarre ): "Madona del Rosario" and "Passage of Saint Joseph"
• Chiesa dell'Oratorio dei Padri Filippini ( Acireale ): ceiling fresco
• Chiesa di Santa Lucia ( Adrano ): "The martyrdom of Saint Lucia"
• Teatro Bellini (Adrano): "Timoleon thanks for the victory" painted theater curtain
• Chiesa di San Vito martire ( Mascalucia ): "The Saints Vitus and Artemia"
• Chiesa di Santa Lucia ( Licodia Eubea ): Holy Family with the Boy John (1841)
• Santuario dei Santi Alfio, Filadelfo e Cirino martiri ( Trecastagni ): "Apotheosis of the Holy Martyrs" and "Madonna della Grazie"
• Chiesa Madre ( Zafferana Etnea ): "Madonna della Powidenza"
• Castello Ursino (Catania): "Sicilian Vespers"

literature

• Rapisardi, Giuseppe . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 17 .