Giacinto Gigante

Giacinto Gigante (Naples 1806 - Naples 1876) is an Italian painter, especially known for its landscapes.

Born in a family from painters (his Gaetano father and its two brothers, Ercole and Achille are also painters), it is naturally initiated with this art by this one.

It continues then its studies near Raffaele Carelli near which it is initiated with the art of the landscape. It then starts to carry out many sights of Naples and its surroundings, carried out especially with the watercolour and on the reason. It comes then into contact with Anton Sminck Pitloo of which he becomes the friend and disciple. It is through the influence of Pitloo that it develops its art of the landscape and founds the Scuola di Posillipo , school of painting which announces already the Impressionnisme.

In the years 1830 he becomes a recognized painter and receives many decorations as well in the Deux-Siciles as abroad. Its most fertile period opens then, between 1830 and 1860. He dies in Naples in 1876.

Many works of Gigante are with the Correale Museum with Sorrente, like in the museums of Naples and of the République of San Marino.

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Biography and works of Gigante

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