Corrado Giaquinto (Molfetta, province of Bari, February 18, 1703 – Naples, 1765 or 1766) was an Italian Rococo painter.
Biography
Born north of Bari, in Molfetta, Giaquinto was a pupil of Francesco Solimena and Sebastiano Conca. He had a very brilliant international career, traveling a lot: he was called to the Spanish court between 1753 and 1762 to work in the royal palaces of Madrid, the Escorial and Aranjuez. There he would be appointed chamber painter, general director of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando (December 1753) and artistic director of the Royal Tapestry Factory of Santa Barbara. To the Academy he would give an oil painting of the Allegory of Peace and Justice, which would be a version of the one he had previously painted for the king.
Works
He painted a fresco for the Basilica of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem in Rome, representing Moses breaking the rock. This composition, painted for the Jubilee of 1750 and now lost, is known to us from a project preserved in the National Gallery in London.
His portrait of the castrato Farinelli, preserved in the conservatory of Bologna, is also one of his masterpieces.
He painted the frescoes of the Roman church of San Nicola dei Lorenesi.
The Prado Museum has a large repertoire of works by Giaquinto, including the first version of the painting of the Royal Academy, or two landscapes (landscape with waterfall and landscape with hunters), very rare in his artistic production, which come from the old Buen Retiro palace, in addition to the mythological painting the sacrifice of Iphigenia. Other museums with his work are the Museum of Zaragoza or the Cerralbo Museum.
His disciples were José del Castillo and Antonio González Velázquez, who in turn guided Mariano Salvador Maella. His work in Spain was, like that of Giambattista Tiepolo, a decisive influence on Goya.
Gallery
Portrait of Farinelli, 1753, Pinacoteca Nazionale in Bologna
Penitent Magdalene, 1750, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Medea Rejuvenating Exon, 1760, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Triumph of Galatea, 1752, Milwaukee Art Museum
Allegories of Justice and Peace, 1754, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
The Descent from the Cross, 1760, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Holy Trinity and Sacred Heart of Jesus, for the oratory of the Buen Retiro, 1759, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1742, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Adoration of the Magi, 1750, Bevagna Museum, Rome
Adoration of the Magi, 1740-45, Museum of the History of Art, Vienna
Adoration of the Magi, 1725, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Christ at the Column, San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, 1735, Vatican Museums
St. Michele and the Devil, 1735, Vatican Museums
Satan before the Lord, 1750, Vatican Museums
The birth of the sun and the triumph of Bacchus, fresco, 1762, Royal Palace of Madrid
The Spanish monarchy paying homage to Religion fresco on the staircase of the Royal Palace of Madrid
frescoed interior, 1731, church of San Nicola dei Lorenesi, Rome
Dream of St. Joseph, 1755-60, Goya Museum – Ibercaja Collection – Camón Aznar Museum, Saragossa
Autumn, 1740-1750, National Gallery of Art, Washington D. C.
Medea, 1750-52, National Trust, Hinton Ampner
Martyrdom of Saints Marius, Martha, Audifax and Abacus, 1750, Musée Fesch, Ajaccio
St. Nicholas of Bari, Musée Fesch, Ajaccio
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