Posillipo School

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Salvatore Fergola: The Promenade of Naples. (before 1872)

The School of Posillipo ( Italian Scuola di Posillipo ) describes a group of painters who came together from 1820 in the Neapolitan suburb of Posillipo (today one of the city's Quartieri ) to revolutionize landscape painting by emphasizing the effects of light. The style of painting shaped by these painters is considered to be the most important development in southern Italian painting in the 19th century.

development

The Dutch painter Anton Sminck van Pitloo , who had been teaching landscape painting at the School of Fine Arts in Naples since 1815, opened a private painting school in his home in Posillipo in 1820, which quickly became a meeting place for a large number of young talents in the area. This led to a loose association of painters who, however, were in lively exchange with one another in order to develop a new type of landscape painting. In addition to Sminck van Pitloo, Giacinto Gigante and Salvatore Fergola are particularly prominent representatives of this school .

style

The landscapes of the representatives of this school are characterized by rather intimate motifs, mostly from the Naples area, and a lively, natural color scheme as well as the consideration of different light phenomena. The carefree joy of these painters in color and light allowed us to see the landscape of the Gulf with new eyes. For this purpose, the pictures, new for the time, were painted directly under the open sky in order to be able to optimally capture the various aspects of nature and the various light phenomena of the day.

Web links

Commons : Scuola di Posillipo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Piergiorgio Granata: Gaeta: viaggio nell'arte: pittura, scultura e arti minori dal medioevo ad oggi . Guida Editori, 2004, ISBN 88-7188-745-X , pp. 44 (Italian).
  2. ↑ Michaela Böhmig, Peter Thiergen, Anna-Maria Meyer: Ivan A. Bunins: Gospodin iz San-Francisko: Text - Context - Interpretation (1915-2015) . Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2016, ISBN 978-3-412-50142-6 , p. 89 .
  3. ↑ Georg Kauffmann, Anton Henze, Erich Egg: Reclam's art guide Italy: Naples and surroundings. By C. Thoenes, with the assistance of T. Lorenz . Reclam, 1971, ISBN 3-15-010177-8 , pp. 421 .
  4. ^ Raffaello Causa: La Scuola di Posillipo . Fabbri editore, Milan 1967, p. 7 (Italian).