Olivio Sozzi

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Olivio Sozzi (born October 14, 1690 in Catania , † October 31, 1765 in Ispica ) was an Italian painter of panel paintings and frescoes .

Life

In Palermo he studied art, mainly drawing. There he married Caterina Cappello, whose rich dowry allowed him to continue his studies. In 1729 he went to Rome to the workshop of Sebastiano Conca . During his stay in the Tiber city, he came into contact with Roman classicism , which had developed as a countermovement to the frivolous Rococo and, through the rediscovery of Roman antiquity, brought a classically oriented artistic aesthetic into discussion. In 1730 the Neapolitan painter Corrado Giaquinto joined the workshop in Conca. A friendly relationship developed between this important representative of the Italian Rococo and Olivio Sozzi, which found its artistic and stylistic expression in Giacinto's takeover of forms, which he enriched with classical elements.

Back in Palermo his son Francesco Sozzi (1732–1795) was born, who trained by his father and later also became a painter. In 1763 he was commissioned by Francesco Saverio Statella to decorate the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Ispica with frescoes. With this fresco consisting of 26 scenes, one of the most important masterpieces of the 18th century in Sicily was created .

Sozzi died on October 31, 1765 by falling from the scaffolding while he was frescoing the Chapel of the Assumption in the Santa Maria Maggiore of Ispica with his son Francesco and son-in-law Vito D'Anna . The great admiration that Sozzi enjoyed meant that he found his final resting place in the chapel in which he died.

In 1908 the basilica was elevated to a national monument due to the works of Sozzi.

Sozzi was Fedele Tirrito's teacher .

Works

  • Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio Martorana (Palermo) frescoes in the inner atrium (1744)
  • Chiesa dell'Immacolata Concezione a Porta Carini, (Palermo) frescoes (1738)
  • Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore (Ispica) frescoes 1763–1765
  • Collegiata ( Catania ) frescoes
  • San Francesco d'Assisi (Catania) apse fresco
  • Santa Maria della Stella ( Militello in Val di Catania ) Altarpiece of the Nativity of Christ
  • San Niccolo ( Avola ) painting
  • Santa Chiara (Catania) painting Blessed Mary
  • San Filippo ( Agira ) painting Santa Agata
  • Santa Maria della Pieta (Palermo) two paintings: Madonna della Rosario and Saints and Ordination of the Dominican Sisters

drafts

  • Design drawings for the central fresco of the Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore (Ispica) with scenes from the Old and New Testament (Louvre, Paris)
  • Design drawing: Birth of Mary for an altarpiece in the church (S. Maria della Stella, Mitello in Val di Catania)

literature

  • A. Gallo, manoscritto, Secolo XIX.
  • Sozzi (Olivio) . In: Biblioteca storica e letteraria di Sicilia . tape 13 and 14, volume 3 and 4 of the series 2. LP Lauriel, Palermo 1873, p. 280 in volume 14 (Italian, Textarchiv - Internet Archive - And other mentions).
  • Sozzi, Olivio . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 316 .
  • Cosimo Filizzola: La Chiesa della Immacolata Concezione di Maria Vergine dell'ordine di San Benedetto a Porta Carini in Palermo. S. Ando & figli, Palermo 1967.
  • Citti Siracusano: La pittura del Settecento in Sicilia. De Luca Editore, Rome 1986, ISBN 88-7813-001-X .
  • Rodo Santoro: Palermo. La "Martorana" e San Cataldo. Arnone, Palermo 2005, ISBN 88-87663-68-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Sozzi, Olivio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sozzi, Olivier; Olivieri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1690
PLACE OF BIRTH Catania
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1765
Place of death Ispica