Vito D'Anna explained

Vito D'Anna
Birth Date:1718 10, df=yes
Birth Place:Palermo, Italy
Death Place:Palermo, Italy
Nationality:Italian
Known For:Painter
Movement:Baroque, Rococo
Notable Works:Apotheosis of St. Dominic
Apotheosis of Palermo
Allegory of Political Virtues
Glory of the Princes of Resuttana
Glory of St. Basil

Vito D'Anna (14 October 1718 – 13 October 1769) was an Italian painter, considered the most prominent painter of Palermitan rococo and one of the most important artists of Sicily.

Biography

He was the father of Alessandro D'Anna, the brother-in-law of Francesco Sozzi, and the son-in-law of Olivio Sozzi.

He studied in Acireale under Pietro Paolo Vasta from 1736 to 1744, when he returned to Palermo. In Acireale, he had painted Portrait of the Provost Gambino.[1] Returning to Palermo, Vito married the daughter of the Catanese painter Olivio Sozzi. Sozzi helped arrange D'Anna to work with the circle of an aged Corrado Giaquinto in Rome.

D'Anna frescoed a number of palaces, and the churches of San Sebastiano, San Matteo and del Salvatore in Palermo. Among his works were: his fresco of the Madonna dei Raccomandati in the church of the same name, his Nativity in the church della Grotta, Self-portrait in the Pinacoteca Zelantea.[2] His nephew, Giuseppe Patania, was also a painter.

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Notes and References

  1. The portrait of Gambino is found in the sacristy of the Acireale Cathedral
  2. http://www.accademiadeglizelanti.it/index.php/la-pittura-in-acireale.html Galleria Zelantea
  3. http://www.palazzoalliata.it/storia.htm Storia di Palazzo Alliata di Pietratagliata
  4. M. G. Paolini. Vito D'Anna – Biography at the Enciclopedia Italiana. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
  5. http://www.zikg.eu/cgi-bin/gucha_de.pl?t_idn=b337757r Il Settecento e il suo doppio. Table of contents