Italian painter
Andrea Gastaldi
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Self-portrait
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Born
| Andrea Gastaldi
(
1826-04-18
)
18 April 1826
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Died
| 9 January 1889
(1889-01-09)
(aged 62)
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Nationality
| Italian
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Known for
| Painter
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Notable work
| "Il sogno di Parisina" (1852),
"Pietro Micca" (1858),
"Gerolamo Savonarola in prigione" (1856)
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Movement
| Romanticism
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Awards
| Premio di Breme (1860)
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Patron(s)
| Michele Cusa
,
Giovan Battista Biscarra
,
Carlo Arienti
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Andrea Gastaldi
(April 18, 1826 ? January 9, 1889)
[1]
was an Italian painter, primarily of historical canvases and portraits.
Biography
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Gastaldi was born and died in
Turin
,
Piedmont
. He studied at the
Accademia Albertina
under
Michele Cusa
,
Giovan Battista Biscarra
, and
Carlo Arienti
. He then traveled to Florence and Rome during 1850?1851 and 1853?1859; and spent some time in Paris studying in the studio of the history painter
Thomas Couture
. He met also
Paul Delaroche
.
[2]
In 1860 at the Promotrice of Turin, with the painting of
Pietro Micca
, he won the institute award funded by the Marchese Di Breme, and was nominated to be professor of painting at the Albertina.
Among his other works depicting historical or literary subjects is
The Prisoner of Chillon
(1854, Promotrice at Turin). This work is based on a poem by
Lord Byron
and was made into an acquaforte engraving by
Alberto Maso Gilli
in 1864 in an Album of the Promotrice.
Other works include:
Gerolamo Savonarola
in jail
(1856);
L'Innominato
(1860); and
Atala
(1862). The latter is the half-Christian and half-Seminole maiden at the center of a
Romantic
style novel by the French author
Chateaubriand
, and which culminates in her chaste suicide. A number of other painters including
Girodet
,
Luis Monroy
, and
Rodolfo Amoedo
also depicted this subject.
Gastaldi made two versions of the painting
Sogno di
Parisina
(including the 1852 version at the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
in Philadelphia, and a second 1867 version in Turin). The tragic story of Parisina was popularized by writers including
Matteo Bandello
,
Lope de Vega
, and in 1816, Lord Byron. In the last version, the Duke of Ferrara ascertains his wife's infidelity, when she mentions her lover's name during sleep. The enraged Duke contracts the murder of the lover, who happens to be his bastard son; he has the assassins do so in front of the Duke's wife.
[3]
Bartolomeo Giuliano
also painted the same subject in 1861 and 1863 (Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Turin).
[4]
Gastaldi's wife,
Leonie Lescuyer-Gastaldi
, was also a painter, who had trained with
Rosa Bonheur
.
[5]
Gastaldi's brother
Lorenzo
was the archbishop of Turin from 1871 to 1883. Among Gastaldi's pupils were
Giovan Battista Carpanetto
,
[6]
Giacomo Gandi
,
Michelangelo Merano
, and
Giacomo Grosso
.
References
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External links
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Media related to
Andrea Gastaldi
at Wikimedia Commons
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