Gaetano Lapis
Gaetano Lapis (1706-1773) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period.
Biography
Lapis was born in the central Italian city of Cagli on 13 August 1706, the son of a wool merchant.[1] [2]
He moved to Rome at a young age and, after a brief apprenticeship with Cristoforo Creo, entered the workshop of Sebastiano Conca, whom Lapis may have met in 1720 when Conca was working on his Madonna and Child with Saint Teresa in Cagli Cathedral. Lapis later moved to the workshop of Conca's cousin Giovanni Conca.[3]
Giovanni Gherardo De Rossi, in his 1787 biography of Lapis, records that Sebastiano Conca "was fond of his new pupil and taught him with devotion even though he saw he was adopting a style totally different from the one he adhered to".[4] During his time in Conca's workshop he was given the nickname Il Carraccetto, a reference to the influence of Bolognese masters of the previous century such as Carracci, Guido Reni and Domenichino.[5]
In 1739 he became a member of the Academy of the Virtuosi and, in 1741, was introduced by Sebastiano Conca as a member of the Accademia di San Luca.[6] By 1754 Lapis was living permanently in Rome.[7] The list of his pupils includes Antonio Cavallucci.[8]
A document in the archive of the Accademia di San Luca records the funeral expenses for the "late academician Gaetano Lapis", indicating that he died in April 1773.
Works
- Church of Santi Celso e Giuliano - Saint Cornelius between Saints Artemia and Januaria (1737)
- Church of San Giovanni della Malva in Trastevere - Saint Camillus of Lellis Worships the Cross
- Church of Santa Caterina da Siena a Via Giulia - Mystical marriage of Saint Catherine (1768); Jesus shows his ribs to Saint Catherine (1769); Apparition of Jesus to Saint Catherine (1769)
- Church of Santi Luca e Martina - Mary Magdalene
- Church of the Santissima Trinità a Via Condotti - San Giovanni de Matha (1750)
- Santi Marcellino e Pietro ad Duas Lauros - Martyrdom of Saint Peter and Saint Marcellino (1751)
- Palazzo Borghese - Birth of Venus (1771-2)
- Galleria Nazionale delle Marche Stories from Jerusalem Delivered: Baptism of Clorinda, Tancredi's Dream, Armida tries to kill Rinaldo, Armida entertains Rinaldo, Armida tries to kill herself (c.1730)
- Cathedral - The Eternal Father; Gathering of Manna (1756); Communion of the Apostles (1756); Saint Andrew Avellino (1758)
- Church of San Francesco - Miracle of the Madonna of the Snow (1730)
- Church of San Giuseppe - Saint Michael Archangel (1764)
- Church of San Nicolò - Miracle of Saint Nicholas of Bari (1756); Allegories of the Splendour of Saint Nicholas of Bari (1759)
- Church of San Pietro - Annunciation and Archangel Gabriel: Virgin with Child and Saints Peter, Paul and Scholastico
- Church of San Filippo - Death of Saint Francis Saverio (1735); Ecstacy of Saint Philip Neri (1754)
- Church of Santa Chiara - Glory of Saint Clare; Saint Cecilia, Saint Agnes, Saint Ursula, Saint Apollonia, Saint Margaret; Pietà (1733)
- Church of San Domenico - Presentation in the Temple
- Church of Santa Lucia - Saint Lucy
- Church of the Madonna del Prato - Saint Francis of Paola
- Cathedral - Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence (1743)
Bibliography
- Arseni, Carlo, Immagine di Cagli, Calosci-Cortona, 1996
- De Rossi, Giovanni Gherardo, Vita di Gaetano Lapis pittore di Cagli, in Memorie per le Belle Arti, Anno III, 1787.
- Mazzacchera, Alberto and Benedetta Montevecchi, Gaetano Lapis. I dipinti di Cagli, Urbania, 1994.
- Mazzacchera, Alberto Il forestiere in Cagli. Palazzi, chiese e pitture di una antica città e terre tra Catria e Nerone, Urbania, 1997.
- Michel, Olivier, Gaetano Lapis in casa sua: lettura di un inventario, in Gaetano Lapis e la cultura artistica nelle Marche a metà Settecento, Urbania, 2005.
- Rosini, Giovanni (1847). Storia della Pittura Italiana esposta coi Monumenti, (Epoca Quarta: Dal Carraci all'Appiani); Volume VII. Presso Niccolò Capurro, Pisa; Original from Oxford University digitized Jan 4, 2007. pp. 86.
- Zandri, Giuliana, Conferenza commemorativa in Onoranze a Gaetano Lapis nel II centenario della morte 1776-1976, Urbania, 1976.
References
- ^ Mazzacchera & Montevecchi, 1994, p.10
- ^ Arseni, 1976, p.222
- ^ Mazzacchera & Montevecchi, 1994, p.10
- ^ De Rossi, Giovanni Gherardo, Vita di Gaetano Lapis pittore di Cagli, in Memorie per le Belle Arti, Anno III, 1787
- ^ Mazzacchera, 1997, p.29.
- ^ Mazzacchera & Montevecchi, 1994, p.12
- ^ Mazzacchera & Montevecchi, 1994, p.13
- ^ Vita di Antonio Cavallucci da Sermoneta pittore; by Giovanni Gherardo De Rossi; Venice 1796, page 13.
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