Onofrio Gabrielli

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Onofrio Gabrielli , also Gabrieli, (born April 2, 1619 in Gesso , Messina , † September 26, 1706 ibid) was an Italian Baroque painter in Padua and Sicily .

Life

He was born in the small town of Gesso , 16 km from Messina . He received his first artistic training from Domenichino's student Antonio Barbalonga . Before 1640 he went to Rome to the workshop of the important fresco painter and baroque architect Pietro Berrettini, known as Pietro da Cortona , and continued his education under the classical landscape painter Nicolas Poussin . After Pietro da Cortona went to Florence in 1640 and Nicolas Poussin to Paris in 1641 , Onofrio Gabrielli also left Rome and went to Domenico Maroli until 1650 , who, like him, had been trained in Messina at Barbalonga and now lived and worked in Venice . Onofrio studied the works of Titian and Veronese in Veneto . He then went to Padua for a long time, where, according to GB Rossetti, he was in the service of the noble Borromeo family . In addition to family portraits and one of his main works, the frescoes in the Villa Borromeo, he created numerous church pictures in Padua and the surrounding area.

In 1660 he went back to Messina, where he made a name for himself as a painter of panel paintings. In addition to his painting, Onofrio devoted himself to alchemy , which cost him almost all of his fortune, so that he now had to create his once lavishly furnished paintings more sparingly by completing his pictures faster and with less material expenditure.

During the Messina uprising against the Spanish repression in 1674, he also worked as a fortress builder and had to flee to France after the revolt was put down in 1678. After he was pardoned by Philip V of Spain , Onofrio returned to Messina in 1701 and created his late work there.

Many of his paintings were lost during the earthquake of 1783 and especially the severe one of 1908 . In 1983 there was a comprehensive exhibition in Gesso with 20 of his works from Veneto and Sicily.

Works

  • Villa Borromeo in ( Padua ): frescoes with Old Testament themes (around 1655)
  • Chiesa San Papino ( Milazzo ): "Madonna and Angels", "Saint Papino and other Holy Franciscans"
  • Chiesa di San Giuseppe (Milazzo): "Wedding of Santa Anna"
  • Chiesa Santa Chiara in (Montelupone nelle Marche): panel painting “Virgin Mary with Child, Santa Klara and Saint John Ev. and Nicholas "(1695)
  • Chiesa madre Monforte San Giorgio , panels “Evangelist”, “S. Nikolaus ”(1695),“ Saint George on Horseback ”(1670) probably also the version of the sculpture“ Saint George and the Dragon ”
  • San Francesco di Paolo (Montforte San Giorgio): panel "San Francesco di Paolo" (1678)
  • Chiesa Santa Maria Assunta ( Randazzo ): "Martyrdom of S. Agathe" "Martyrdom of S. Lorenzo" and "Madonna del Rosario"
  • Chiesa della Concezione Syracuse “Madonna with the Letter”, “Death of Innocent”, “Martyrdom of Santa Lucia” and “Adoration”
  • Monaci Cappuccini (Messina): "Birth of Christ"
  • Pinacoteca Civica Reggio Calabria : "Message from the Senators of Messina to the Blessed Mother"
  • Museo Regionale di Messina "Madonna of the Intercession"
  • Museo Civico (Padua): "la merlettaia con la maestra"

literature

  • Giovambatista Rossetti: Descrizione delle pitture, sculture, ed architetture di Padova con alcune osservazioni intorno ad esse, ed altre curiose notizie. 2 volumes. Stamperia del Seminario, Padua 1765.
  • Jakob Philipp Hackert : Memorie De 'Pittori Messinesi e Degli Esteri che in Messina fiorirono dal secolo XII. fino al secolo XIX. Papparlando, Messina 1821, pp. 136-138 ( babel.hathitrust.org ).
  • By a Lady (ie: Maria Farquhar): Biographical Catalog of the principal Italian Painters, with a Table of the contemporary Schools of Italy. Designed as a hand-book to the picture Gallery. = Dictionary of Italian Painters. Edited by Ralph N. Wornum. Murray, London 1855, pp. 66-67 ( books.google.com ).
  • Gabrielli (Gabriello), Onofrio . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 21 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Francesco Susinno: Le Vite de 'Pittori Messinesi (= Università di Messina. Pubblicazioni dell' Istituto di storia dell 'arte medioevale e moderna. Volume 1). Testo, introduzione e note bibliografiche a cura di Valentino Martinelli. Le Monnier, Florence 1960.
  • Francesca Campagna Cicala, Gioacchino Barbera (ed.): Onofrio Gabrieli: 1619–1706. Gesso, 27 agosto - 29 ottobre 1983 Chiesa Madre di S. Antonio Abate, Chiesa di S. Francesco di Paola. Industria Poligrafica della Sicilia, Messina 1983 (exhibition catalog).
  • Fabio Cosentino: Onofrio Gabrielli . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 47, Saur, Munich a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-598-22787-6 , p. 63.
  • In memoria di Gabrieli. In: Centonove. September 22, 2006, p. 39.

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personal data
SURNAME Gabrielli, Onofrio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gabrieli, Onofrio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1619
PLACE OF BIRTH Gesso , Messina
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1706
Place of death Gesso , Messina