Luigi Rodriguez

Luigi Rodriguez , also called Loise il Siziliano , (* after 1570 in Messina , † 1609 in Naples ) was an Italian mannerist painter in Naples.

Life

Luigi Rodriguez: The Trinity and Saints , ca.1605, Museo di Capodimonte , Naples

Like his brother Alonso Rodriguez (1578–1648), he probably received his first training in the workshop of Francesco Comandé in Messina. Around 1594 Luigi came to Naples together with Giovanni Bernardino Azzolini . Before leaving, he submitted “The Head of Medusa ” to the University of Messina as a work sample.

In Naples he entered the workshop of the fresco painter Belisario Corenzio and fully adopted the painting style of the Caravaggio teacher Giuseppe Cesari called il Cavalier d'Arpino, who at that time was creating frescoes in the Certosa di San Martino in Naples . D'Arpino's Roman Mannerist painting was a school for the following Neapolitan artists.

His first documented work in Naples is decorative painting in the Chiesa di Sant'Anna dei Lombardi (Chapel of the Goldsmiths) from 1596 to 1598.

1601–03 he worked with Battistello Caracciolo on frescoes in the Sacro Monte di Pieta and, on the mediation of Corenzio, he frescoed the main apse in the Chiesa dei Gerolamini .

Under Spanish rule, art and culture were systematically promoted in Naples at the beginning of the 17th century. To strengthen the local artists, foreign painters were also given orders. A bitter resistance formed against these "guest painters", the head of which was Belisario Corenzio.

This contributed to the formation of legends and the persistent opinion in the older literature that Luigi Rodriguez was poisoned by his master Belisario in 1630.

Today researchers agree that he died of natural causes in Naples as early as 1609.

plant

• Monasterio San Lorenzo (Naples): In the refectory "Allegory of the 12 provinces of the Kingdom of Naples" (around 1600)
• Sacro Monte di Pietà (Naples) frescoes, together with Caracciolo (1601–03)
• Chiesa Girolamini (Naples) frescoes for the main apse (1602–05) and altarpiece "Descent from the Cross", with Azzolino (1603)
• Chiesa di Santa Maria di Costantinopoli (Naples): Madonna ei SS. Francesco d 'Assisi e Francesco di Paolo
• Chiesa di Santa Patrizia (Napoli) : frescoes (1607)
• Monastero San Lorenzo-Chiesa di S. Anna (Salerno): “S. Antonius appears the Madonna "," Madonna in Glory with S. Lorenz "and" Virgin Mary with Francis of Assisi "
• Museo di Capodimonte (Naples) panel "Trinity with angels and saints"

literature

• Pittura napoletana del '600 - Luigi Rodriguez, di Carlo Andreoli ( Memento of December 16, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
• Jakob Philipp Hackert: Memorie De 'Pittori Messinesi E Degli Esteri che in Messina fiorirono dal secolo XII. fino al secolo XIX. Papparlando, Messina 1821. [1] Bl., XXXVI, 240, V, [1] S., [27] Bl.: 27 Portr. (Copperplate).
• Giuseppe Grosso-Cacopardo, Memorie de 'pittori messinesi e degli esteri che in Messina fiorirono dal sec. XII sino al sec. XIX. Tipografia Pappalardo, Messina 1821.
• Luigi Rodriguez . 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. 473-474 .