Ippolito Caffi
Ippolito Caffi (born October 16, 1809 in Belluno , † July 20, 1866 near Lissa ) was an Italian painter .
life and work
After an apprenticeship with painters in Belluno and his cousin Pietro Paoletto in Padua , Caffi studied from 1827 to 1829 at the Academy in Venice with Tranquillo Orsi and Teodoro Matteini. In January 1832 he came to Rome , where Paoletto was meanwhile also working. He lived in Rome for the following years, but often stayed in other cities for exhibitions or commissioned works, for example in Milan in 1839 , in Trieste and Venice in 1840, and in Padua in 1841. In the fall of 1843 he traveled to the Orient and visited Greece, Turkey, Palestine and Egypt.
In 1848 he left Rome to fight the Austrians in the first Italian war of independence . He fought in Friuli , was taken prisoner, was able to escape and lived in Venice until it was reconquered by the Austrians . He then stayed in Genoa , Turin and briefly in Switzerland and Spain. In 1855 he returned to Rome, where he reopened his studio and created some of his most important paintings. In 1858 he lived again in Venice, in 1860 he spent three months in prison for his revolutionary activities. He then went to Milan and Naples to join Garibaldi 's troops . As a war painter he was on board the warship Re d'Italia in 1866 , which was sunk in the sea battle of Lissa , in which Caffi was also killed.
Caffi's works include oil paintings and wall paintings, especially vedutas in the Canaletto tradition and scenes from the Wars of Independence. His picture of a carnival scene in the Piazetta in Venice, which was shown at the Paris World's Fair in 1855 and impressed with its peculiar, shiny lighting effect, attracted great attention .
literature
- Caffi, Ippolito. In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 3, Leipzig 1905, p. 687. ( online )
- Mary Pittaluga: Caffi, Ippolito. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 16: Caccianiga-Caluso. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1973.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Caffi, Ippolito |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1809 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belluno |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 20, 1866 |
| Place of death | at Lissa |