Rocco Lentini

San Giovanni degli Eremiti , oil painting 1876

Rocco Lentini (born February 17, 1858 in Palermo , † November 20, 1943 in Venice ) was an Italian painter in Sicily .

Life

Lentini was the son of the theater painter Giovanni Lentini the Elder (* 1830 in Trapani - 1890 in Palermo) and father of Giovanni Lentini the Younger.

Initially working as a stage painter, he received a grant from the city of Palermo in 1877, which enabled him to attend the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna . Just two years later he was represented with paintings at the Paris Salon in 1879. In 1879 he continued his training at the Promotrice delle belle arti in Turin .

From 1888 to 1924 he taught drawing at the Regio Educandato Maria Adelaide in Palermo, but was also able to take on numerous commissions. Lentini often worked with Enrico Cavallaro .

In addition to numerous exhibitions, he took part in the Biennale di Venezia in 1905 and 1922 . He published two textbooks: "Elementi di Ornato" (1892) and "Elementi di Paesaggio" and was involved in Ernesto Basile's 1911 catalog raisonné on the plasterer Giacomo Serpotta .

Works in Palermo (selection)

• Stazione Centrale: decorative painting (1886)
• Villa Malfitano Whitaker : fresco decorations (1886–1887),
• Palazzo delle Aquile (1890-1891)
• Teatro Politeama : wall paintings (1890–1891)
• Biblioteca Francescana (Palermo): watercolors in the manuscript “Storia di Carnevale” (together with Enrico Cavallaro)
• Galleria d 'arte moderna : wall paintings in two exhibition rooms in the Pompeian style (with Enrico Cavallaro and Giuseppe Enea )
• Watercolors in the book La vita recitata (with Enrico Cavallaro) New edition in the Enzo Sellerio Editore. Palermo 1980

literature

• Fernanda Lentini (Ed.): Rocco Lentini nelle collezioni del museo. Civica Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Palermo 1999 (exhibition catalog).
• Lentini, Rocco . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 62 .
• Teresa Sacchi Lodispoto:  Lentini, Rocco. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 64:  Latilla – Levi Montalcini. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2005.
• Fernanda Lentini Speciale, Ubaldo Mirabelli (Ed.): Rocco Lentini . Civica Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Palermo 2001 (exhibition catalog).

Web links

Commons : Rocco Lentini  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Archivio Biografico Comunale: Lentini Rocco Comune di Palermo no death dates
• Galeria Roma, Syracuse (with picture examples) ( Memento from May 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) the introductory text is identical to the school page. Birth Date Feb.27, 1858.
• Educandato Maria Adelaide ( Memento from January 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) The fact that he was a teacher at this school for over 30 years is not mentioned in the article