Fedele Fischetti

The Holy Family with saint Januarius and saint Anthony of Padua, Glasgow Museums.

Fedele Fischetti (30 March 1732 – 25 January 1792)[1] was an Italian painter of the Neoclassical period. He was born and died in Naples.

Biography

Fischetti was mainly active as a fresco painter for palaces and villas in and around the city, including the Royal Palace at Portici.[2] He painted frescoes of the seasons, Summer and Winter, in the conversation rooms of the appartamento vecchio of the Royal Palace of Caserta.[3]

The exact date of his death is not known, but his last dated work is from 1792.

Among his works are listed:[4]

  • Virgin, St Anne, with Saints Carlo and Geronimo in the Chapel of the Assumption in the church of Spirito Santo
  • Three oil canvases in the Chapel of the Verdi in the church of Spirito Santo
  • Virgin of the Rosary with Santa Rosa for the Chapel of the Prince della Roccella in the Church of San Domenico Maggiore
  • Canvases in Santa Caterina da Siena, San Eligio, and Santa Maria in Portico
  • Summer with Ceres and Proserpine, Winter with Boreas Abducting Orithyia and for the Queen's quarters, a Venus; all painted for the Palace of Caserta
  • Ceilings for the Palazzo Francavilla (Palazzo Cellammare), painted alongside Pietro Bardellino and Giacinto Diano

Two of his pupils were Paolo Girgenti and Giuseppe Camerata (born in Sciacca).[5]

References

  1. ↑ Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 48 (1997), Francesca Bertozzi
  2. ↑ Istituto Matteucci biography of his son, the painter Odoardo Fischetti.
  3. ↑ Caserta, Benevento and Avellino, Italy: Frommer's ShortCuts, 2012
  4. ↑ Vicende della coltura nelle due Sicilie, by Pietro Napoli-Signorelli. Volume II, 2nd edition, Naples (1811); page 253-254.
  5. ↑ Biblioteca Centrale Regione Siciliana, page 300.
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