Marco Moro

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Marco Moro (born December 9, 1817 in Zenson di Piave , † February 25, 1885 in Venice ) was an Italian lithography- edutist and editor of 19th century prints. He is considered the "most popular" of all Venetian lithographers.

Canal Grande , 1854 (tip of the Dogana da Mar)
Palazzo Trissino (sul Corso) in Vicenza, 1847
The lighthouse of Trieste, 1854

life and work

Marco Moro was born into a comparatively wealthy, educated family. Interested in painting from an early age, he attended the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia from 1834 to 1839 , where Odorico Politi (painting), Luigi Zandomeneghi (sculpture) and Lodovico Lipparini taught at the time. Then he worked in the lithography department that Luigi Berletti had opened in Udine . Together with Ottavio Codecasa, his first major work was the album pittorico del Friuli , which was published in 1841. It is not clear when Moro ended his work at Berletti, but in 1845 he no longer worked there.

Moro moved to Venice, where he had to accept numerous commissions from a number of publishers as a result of the bankruptcy of his family. The competition was fierce, as many lithographers were working in the city at the time, including Giovanni Battista Cecchini, Giovanni Pividor and Tommaso Viola. Moro was the only one who dealt exclusively with lithography, creating an enormous number of vedute. The best-known work is the two-part opus from 1845 to 1863, the Venezia monumentale pittoresca . Part 1 is about I Palazzi , Part 2 is about I Templi , i.e. about palaces and temples. Gianiacopo Fontana wrote the art-historical part .

Venezia in miniatura , Il Teatro di Padova riedificato dall'Architetto Jappelli and the album di Gemme architettoniche di Vicenza were created in 1847 . The latter comprises more than 150 lithographs. Moro was one of the few vedutists who devoted their labor to Vicenza . This is how Vicenza e suoi dintorni was created in 1850 , which he himself edited together with Decio Avogadro. Moro also created the illustrations for Alessandro De-Marchi's work Nuova guida di Padova e suoi dintorni , which was published by Kirchmayr in Venice in 1855.

But Marco Moro not only produced vedute, he was also active in the field of history painting , such as Sconfitta data agli Austriaci in Mestre dai Figli d'Italia il 27 ottobre 1848 , where it was about the defeat of the Austrians in Mestre in 1848, or Assedio di Venezia (Siege of Venice). When the Austrians finally conquered Venice, Moro painted the arrival of the Austrian emperor with Arrivo di SMIRA Francesco Giuseppe I in Venezia il 27 March 1851 . As early as 1844 he had contributed with engravings to a series of watercolors that Cesare Dell'Acqua had created for the journey of Emperor Ferdinand and his wife Maria Anna of Savoy to Trieste .

The album Trieste città gentilissima e commerciale figurata in ventiquattro vedute prospettiche disegnate da Marco Moro e descritte da celebri penne archeologiche artistiche , which was published in Venice by Giovanni Brizeghel in 1854, can be regarded as a kind of mature work . It comprised 24 vedute of the city.

literature

  • Clelia Alberici: Marco Moro, litografo vedutista , in: Rassegna di Studi e di Note 5 (1977) 9-91.
  • Laura Paris: Disegni di Marco Moro in una collezione privata triestina , in: AFAT-Arte in Friuli. Arte a Trieste 33 (2015) 197-210.
  • Matteo Ballarin: Marco Moro's 'nozioni elementari di prospettiva' (1868): didactic use and misuse of the principles of three-points perspective , in: Proceeding of 17TH International Conference on Geometry and Graphics, Beijing (2016) 185-187.

reception

  • Gianjacopo Fontana: Venezia monumentale. I palazzi. Con 82 tavole di Marco Moro , Filippi, 1967.

Web links

Commons : Marco Moro  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Erik Forssman: Venice in Art and Art Judgment of the 19th Century , 1971, p. 101.
  2. ^ Album pittorico del Friuli disegnato dal vero da Ottavio Codecasa e litografato da valenti artisti , Codecasa & C., Udine 1841
  3. ^ Venezia monumentale pittoresca , 2 parts, Kier, Venice 1845–1863.
  4. ↑ Venezia in miniatura, o principali vedute, e pianta di questa città , 4 parts in 2 volumes, G. Minzon, Venice 1850.
  5. ↑ Il Teatro di Padova riedificato dall'Architetto Jappelli , Crescini, Padua 1847 ( digitized ).
  6. ↑ album di gemme architettoniche ossia gli edifizî più di Vicenza rimarchevoli e del suo territorio , Giovanni Brizeghel, Venice 1847th
  7. ↑ Vicenza e suoi dintorni, disegni a due ink presi dal vero e litografati da Marco Moro , Decio Avogadro e Marco Moro, Vicenza-Venice 1850.
  8. ↑ Alessandro De-Marchi: Nuova guida di Padova e suoi dintorni con disegni di Marco Moro , Padua 1855 ( digitized version ).
  9. ↑ Published by the lithograph Ripamonti Carpano, Venice 1849.
  10. ↑ Published by the Litofgrafia di Pietro Ripamonti Carpano.
  11. ^ Viaggio di SM l'imperatore Ferdinando d'Austria e sua consorte , Lit. Linassi e C., Triest 1844.
personal data
SURNAME Moro, Marco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian lithographer and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Zenson di Piave
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1885
Place of death Venice