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Francesco Nagar
Francesco Nagar (May 5, 1861 - ?) was an Italian painter and ceramist, who gravitated towards painting maiolica ceramics. Nagar was born in Naples. He studied in the Royal Museo Artistico Industriale of Naples, with his teachers, Domenico Morelli, Ignazio Pericci, and Filippo Palizzi. He exhibited work at the Mostre della Promotrice Salvator Rosa of Naples from 1877 to 1897. His first submissions were canvas paintings, mainly of interior or exterior vedute of Naples. For example, a ''View of the choir of the church of San Severino'' exhibited in 1879 in Naples, and in 1880 at Turin. In 1877, he exhibited in Naples: ''Ritorno da Piedigrotta'', ''Il pasto ai polli'' and a ''Landscape''. In 1883 at Naples, he exhibited ''Passa tempo viziozo'', ''Il pasto frugale'', and ''il pescatore''; and in 1884, ''Sacro e profano''. By 1888, he was exhibiting paintings on maiolica. In 1888 at Naples, he displayed in maiolica: ''Arabi'' and ''Salve Regina'' (Copy of a Morelli painting). In 1888 h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maiolica
Maiolica is tin-glazed pottery decorated in colours on a white background. The most renowned Italian maiolica is from the Renaissance period. These works were known as ''istoriato'' wares ("painted with stories") when depicting historical and mythical scenes. By the late 15th century, multiple locations,L. Arnoux, 1877, British Manufacturing Industries – Pottery "Most of the Italian towns had their manufactory, each of them possessing a style of its own. Beginning at Caffagiolo and Deruta, they extended rapidly to Gubbio, Ferrara, and Ravenna, to be continued to Casteldurante, Rimini, Urbino, Florence, Venice, and many other places." mainly in northern and central Italy, were producing sophisticated pieces for a luxury market in Italy and beyond. In France, maiolica developed as faience, in the Netherlands and England as delftware, and in Spain as talavera. In English, the spelling was anglicised to ''majolica'' (). Name The name is thought to come from the medieval Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naples
Naples ( ; ; ) is the Regions of Italy, regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 908,082 within the city's administrative limits as of 2025, while its Metropolitan City of Naples, province-level municipality is the third most populous Metropolitan cities of Italy, metropolitan city in Italy with a population of 2,958,410 residents, and the List of urban areas in the European Union, eighth most populous in the European Union. Naples metropolitan area, Its metropolitan area stretches beyond the boundaries of the city wall for approximately . Naples also plays a key role in international diplomacy, since it is home to NATO's Allied Joint Force Command Naples and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean. Founded by Greeks in the 1st millennium BC, first millennium BC, Naples is one of the oldest continuously inhabited urban areas in the world. In the eighth century BC, a colony known as Parthenope () was e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domenico Morelli
Domenico Morelli (4 August 182313 August 1901) was an Italians, Italian painter, who mainly produced historical and religious works. Morelli was immensely influential in the arts of the second half of the 19th century, both as director of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples, but also because of his rebelliousness against institutions: traits that flourished into the passionate, often patriotic, Romanticism, Romantic and later Symbolism (arts), Symbolist subjects of his canvases. Morelli was the teacher of Vincenzo Petrocelli, Ulisse Caputo, and Anselmo Gianfanti. Biography He was born to a poor family in Naples. His mother had hoped he would become a priest. His precocious talent was noted, and he was enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Naples in 1836–1846, where he befriended Francesco Saverio Altamura, Francesco Altamura. His early works contain imagery drawn from the Middle Ages, Medieval stories and Romantic poetry, Romantic po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignazio Pericci
Ignazio () is a masculine Italian given name. Notable people with the name include: Arts *Ignazio Collino (1736–1793), Italian sculptor *Ignazio Gardella (1905–1999), Italian architect and designer * Ignazio Hugford (1703–1777), Italian painter *Ignazio Marabitti (1719–1797), Sicilian sculptor * Ignazio Oliva (17th century), Italian painter * Carlo Ignazio Pozzi (1786–1842), Italian painter and architect * Ignazio Stern (1679–1748), Austrian painter Literature *Ignazio Buttitta (1899–1997), Sicilian dialectal poet *Ignazio Giorgi (1675–1737), Italian poet and translator *Ignazio Silone (1900–1978), Italian novelist and poet Music *Ignazio Albertini (1644–1685), Italian violinist and composer *Ignazio Cirri (1711–1787), Italian organist and composer *Ignazio Boschetto, Italian singer-songwriter & member of Il Volo *Ignazio Donati (1570–1638), Italian composer * Ignazio Fiorillo (1715–1787), Italian composer *Ignazio Marini (1811–1873), Italian operati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
