Belluno
Belluno (; lld, Belum; vec, Belùn) is a town and province in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Located about north of Venice, Belluno is the capital of the province of Belluno and the most important city in the Eastern Dolomites region ...
, October 24, 1786- Tarzo, November 23, 1859) was an Italian painter and engraver, active in a Neoclassic style.
Biography
His parents were of humble origins; his mother, Lucia Schiochet, was the domestic servant of Francesco Maria Colle, a professor of the Atheneum of
Padua
Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of the ...
. In Padua, Demin first apprenticed with Paolo De Filippi, who noting his skills, and with the patronage of the Falier family of San Vitale, had him enrolled by 1804 at the Academy of Fine Arts of
Venice
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, directed by
Lattanzio Querena
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Lattanzio Querena (1 November 1768, in Predella in Valle di Scalva – 10 July 1853) was an Italian painter, depicting historical and sacred subjects,Francesco Hayez, and was a pupil of the painter
Teodoro Matteini
Teodoro Matteini (Pistoia, 1753 - Venice, 1831) was an Italian painter, mainly of historical and religious subjects in a Neoclassical style.
Biography
His father, Ippolito Matteini, born 1720, was a decorative painter and was the teacher of the ...
and Pietro Tantini. In 1808, De Min was awarded a stipend from the Academy to study in Rome. There he fell under the influence of neoclassical artists such as Canova.
Returning to Venice, De Min mainly dedicated himself to fresco or panel decoration of houses and salons. His decorations (1817) of mythologic themes in the Palazzo Cicognara in Venice, using designs by Hayez, are now lost. The next year, in collaboration with Hayez he helped decorate the Palazzo of the Count Giovanni Papadopoli in San Marina with depictions of ''Leda'', ''Diana and Acteon'', ''Salmace and Hermaphrodite'', ''Callisto'', ''Venus and the Graces''. He also painted ''The Four Elements'' and ''The Dream of Love'' for the casa Comello near San Canciano in Venice. Also in 1818 in collaboration with Hayez, and in a commission arranged by the secretary of the Accademia, Antonio Diedo, he participated in the restoration of the
Tintoretto
Tintoretto ( , , ; born Jacopo Robusti; late September or early October 1518Bernari and de Vecchi 1970, p. 83.31 May 1594) was an Italian painter identified with the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticized the speed wit ...
canvases in the
Ducal Palace Several palaces are named Ducal Palace (Italian: ''Palazzo Ducale'' ) because it was the seat or residence of a duke.
Notable palaces with the name include:
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*Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy, Dijon
* Palace of the Dukes of Lorraine, Nancy
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. With the death of
Angelo Pizzi
Angelo Pizzi (1775 – Venice, 1819) was an Italian sculptor, active in a Neoclassical style.
He was pupil of Giuseppe Franchi. He completed the statues of Saints Matthew and Simon for the Duomo of Milan. He made a model for a colossal statue ...
by 1819, and with the encouragement of Count Cicognara, De Min had been named to professor of sculpture at the Accademia.
It is not clear how active he was as a professor, since by 1818, De Min had moved over to
Padua
Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of the ...
, where he was very active. He worked on the decoration with subjects from the ''Iliad'' (1818) of the Palazzo Pesaro-Papafava. He painted a ''Triumph of Rossini'' (1822) in the Palazzo Treves de' Bonfili. In collaboration with Hayez, they painted a series of mythologic subjects: ''Convito degli Dei'', ''Triumph and Marriage of Bacchus and Ariadne'', ''Mars and Venus'', and ''Venus and Ascanius'' (1821–24) in the Palazzo Rusconi Sacerdoti. In 1824-25, he painted the ''Story of Psyche'', and episodes from Tasso's work in the Palazzo Gaudio. In 1825, in the Palazzo Rossi, now Moschini, he painted mythologic subjects. In 1828, in Palazzo Revedin, he painted ''La Fortuna'', ''Laocoon'', ''Ulysses kills Procedus''. In this same decade he painted the ''Education of Achilles'' and ''Apotheosis of Canova'' in Palazzo Crescini-Trieste. For the casa Fasolo, he painted ''Erminia saves Tancred'', ''Jove and Juno'', ''Leda''. Finally from 1829-1831, he frescoed the ''Story of Psyche'' for the Palazzo Treves de' Bonfili in Venice, a palace where Ludovico Lipparini, Borsato, Cicognara and others were employed. He also painted a large historic canvas of the ''Massacre of Alberico da Romano and his family'', which only is now known through an 1839 lithography by Francesco Locatello.
Demin late in life moved to Ceneda, near present-day Vittorio Veneto, and painted frescoes in churches and Villas in Veneto including ''La Lotta delle Spartane'' in Villa dei Patt near
Belluno
Belluno (; lld, Belum; vec, Belùn) is a town and province in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Located about north of Venice, Belluno is the capital of the province of Belluno and the most important city in the Eastern Dolomites region ...
. He also painted the Council Hall of the Palazzo Rosso in Belluno and in 1837 a salon of Villa Gera in
Conegliano
Conegliano (; Venetian: ''Conejan'') is a town and ''comune'' of the Veneto region, Italy, in the province of Treviso, about north by rail from the town of Treviso. The population of the city is of people. The remains of a 10th-century castle a ...
.
He painted large oil canvases depicting the ''Resurrection of Lazzarus'' (1825), ''The Exile of the Ezzelini'' and the ''Profanation of the Temple'' for the church in
Auronzo
Auronzo di Cadore is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the province of Belluno (Cadore) in the Italian region of Veneto, located about north of Venice and about northeast of Belluno. While Auronzo is geographically only from the Austrian border, ...
. In 1830, he painted the ''Apostles'' in fresco for the church of
Possagno
Possagno is a comune in the Province of Treviso, in the Italian region Veneto. It is located about northwest of Venice and about northwest of Treviso. As of 31 August 2021, it had a population of 2,191 and an area of .All demographics and other ...
, a ''Final Judgement'' for a church in Paderno, ''Queen Saba before Solomon'' and the ''St Saba embarks for Constantinople'' (1846). He painted the ''Defeat of the Fallen Angels'' for the church of
Caneva
Caneva is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pordenone in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about northwest of Trieste and about west of Pordenone. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 6,374 and an area o ...