Sebastiano Conca

Sebastiano Conca , known as “it Cavaliere”, born in 1680 with Gaète, in the kingdom of Naples, died in 1764 with Naples, is a Italian painter of the school florentine.

Elder of ten children, it is made at the Neapolitan school of Francesco Solimena. In 1706, it leaves to Rome with his Giovanni brother, who is used to him as assistant. During several years, he works only with chalk, to improve his drawing. He is sponsored by the Ottoboni cardinal, who presents it to the pope Clément XI and painted a Jérémie for the Basilique Midsummer's Day of Lateran. In reward of this work, the pope does it knight, and the cardinal offers a diamond cross to him. In 1710, it founds its academy, which attracts pupils of all Europe, among which Pompeo Batoni, the sicilian Olivio Sozzi, Giuseppe Tresca and Carlo Maratta. Its fame grows quickly, and it receives the patronage of the majority of the crowned heads of Europe. In 1729, it enters to the Academy of Saint Luc, of which it takes the direction at two periods. Among his works, one counts the Worship of the shepherds (1720), Probatica Piscina for Chiesa della Santissima Annunziata of His (1732), the Naissance of the Virgin . The son of Conca, Tommaso, also knew a certain celebrity as painter to him.

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