Vittorio Bigari

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Vittorio Maria Bigari (* 1692 in Bologna ; † 1776 there ) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque .

Life

The Feast of Belshazzar (1740)

Vittorio Bigari was the son of the painter Giacomo Bigari. He proved his first artistic skills as a plasterer and decorator in his hometown of Bologna, before turning to painting as a student of Antonio Dardani. His earliest works from this period are the altarpiece of the Church of San Nicolò in Carpi from 1720 and the paintings of the Church of Sant'Agostino in Rimini , whose Baroque decoration he carried out in 1722 together with Ferdinando Bibiena . During this time he made a decorative cycle with mythological scenes in the stairwell and the corridors for the renovated palace of Bishop Pompeo Aldrovandi in Bologna. In the years 1724 and 1725, with the frescoes for the Manfredi palace in Faenza and the iconographic design of the decor for the gallery of the Ranuzzi palace in Bologna, with scenes after Pier Jacopo Martello, works of art of self-expression and an independent artistic sensitivity. These successful decorations brought him major commissions for other palaces in Bologna, especially 1744–1748 again for the palace of Cardinal Pompeo Aldrovandi. In the same building as twenty years earlier, he painted the great gallery with glorious events and images of important personalities of the family, in addition to episodes of Roman history in grisaille technique in the gallery of statues. His appointment to the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna ( Accademia Clementina ) made him known far beyond the borders of Emilia . In the religious field Vittorio Bigari painted frescoes in Bologna in 1733/1734 in the central nave of the Basilica San Domenico with representations of events from the history of the Church and the Dominican Order . He also painted for the Madonna del Soccorso church and painted the dome of the Madonna della Guardia church . In 1738 he offered his services to the House of Savoy and took over the decoration of Queen Elisabeth Therese's apartment in the Palazzo Reale in Turin . In 1748 Bigari created the “Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne” for the frescoes in the halls of the Villa Albergati in Zola Predosa near Bologna.

His three sons Francesco , Giacomo and Angelo became the first architect, the other two embarked on a career as a painter.

Works by Vittorio Bigari on secular and religious subjects are now represented in museums in Italy and abroad. Frescoes from his hand adorn numerous churches and palaces in Bologna and the surrounding areas.

Works (selection)

Painting:

Drawings:

Gallery of his workplaces (selection)

  • San Nicolò in Carpi

  • Sant'Agostino in Rimini

  • Palazzo Aldrovandi Montanari in Bologna

  • Palazzo Manfredi in Faenza

  • San Domenico in Bologna

  • Madonna della Guardia in Bologna

  • Palazzo Reale in Turin

  • Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna

Web links

literature

  • Michael Bryan: Vittorio Bigari. In: Dictionary of painters and engravers, biographical and critical. P. 78 ( books.google.com ).
  • Maria Farquhar: Vittorio Bigari. In: Biographical catalog of the principal Italian painters. P. 26 ( books.google.com ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Basilica di San Luca, Cappella Maggiore, Cupola , accessed April 2, 2011.
  2. ^ Villa Albergati , accessed April 2, 2011.
  3. ^ Vittorio Bigari in The Artists of All Times and Nations - Friedrich Müller (1857) , accessed on April 2, 2011.
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personal data
SURNAME Bigari, Vittorio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bigari, Vittorio Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1692
PLACE OF BIRTH Bologna
DATE OF DEATH 1776
Place of death Bologna