Bernardo Celentano (23 February 1835 – 28 July 1863) was an Italian painter of the 19th century, who painted historical themes in the style of

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Bernardo Celentano - Il Tasso infermo a Bisaccia

Early life

Celentano was born in Naples, where he first trained with Luigi Stabile. He subsequently attended the

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, where he was instructed by Giuseppe Mancinelli. By 1860, he had moved to Rome where he had a brief and intense career.

Career

He was a colleague of

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 Ac ...

and

Filippo Palizzi Filippo Palizzi (16 June 1818, Vasto – 11 September 1899, Naples) was an Italian painter, known for his rural genre scenes with animals, mostly goats. His brothers, Francesco Paolo, Giuseppe and Nicola, also became painters. Biography He was ...

, two other Realist painters. Among his two major paintings are

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Bisaccia Bisaccia is an Italian town and comune, population 4,382, situated in the province of Avellino. It borders the communes of Andretta, Aquilonia, Calitri, Guardia Lombardi, Lacedonia, Scampitella and Vallata. Bisaccia has its own Bisaccese ...

'' and ''The Council of Ten'' (''Il Consiglio di Dieci)''. His friend, Guglielmo de Sanctis published an essay of the last days of his life, and mentions that the painters

Cesare Fracassini Cesare Fracassini (or Fracassi; December 18, 1838 – December 13, 1868) was an Italian painter, mainly of large mythologic or religious topics. Biography While he was born to Paolo Serafini, originally from Orvieto; his father died when he was ...

and Paolo Mei, as well as himself, were by his bedside at the time of his demise. The precocious death of such a talent was a cause of great distress among fellow artists. A conference in 1893 recalled his life, work, and posthumous influence.''Bernardo Celentano: conferenza letta nella R. Accademia di Belle Arti in Napoli''
by his nephew, Pasquale Lubrano-Celentano, Introduction by Ferdinando Martini, Editor Luigi Pierro, Naples 1893.

Death

He died in Rome at the age of 28 and he was buried in the church of

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in Rome.

References

Attribution: * 1835 births 1863 deaths 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Naples Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli alumni 19th-century Italian male artists Kingdom of the Two Sicilies people {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub