Vincenzo Scala Explained

Vincenzo Scala (Naples, 1839 - after 1893) was an Italian painter.

Vincenzo studied at the Institute of Fine Arts of Naples.[1] At the 1872 Milanese Mostra of Fine Arts, he exhibited a landscape: Remembrance of the Roman Countryside and another canvas, La fiera. In 1880, in Turin he exhibited; The 15th of June in Teano.[2] In 1876, he helped decorate the walls and ceiling of the Palazzo of Baroni Zona in Naples. The large ceiling has a large allegorical composition of landscape with figures. called the Dea Aurora, or also "dalle dita rosee" seeing the sunrise effect, in which the goddess raises the light over the dusk.[3] This ceiling painted in 1876, three years after his success in Vienna with the canvas of Piazza of Siena.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Comanducci, Agostino M.: Dizionario illustrato dei pittori, disegnatori ed incisori italiani (1974).
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=Zz0bAAAAYAAJ Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.
  3. http://www.eventieartenapoli.it/le-nostre-sale/ Ceiling of Palazzo Zona
  4. De Gubernatis.