Corrado Giaquinto

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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