Dictionary of Artists

 

To meet the requirement of scholars, art dealers, collectors or simple amateurs of having a quick and effective tool at their disposal to satisfy the various exigencies connected with the world of art, first of all the in-depth analysis of the work of painters, sculptors, engravers, photographers, etc., the "Dictionary of artists" puts itself up as an annotated list of names, sometimes accompanied, if marked by an asterisk, by a biography and by some signature examples.

Each artist is matched with a series of index cards regarding the works registered in the Data Bank of the Matteucci Institute, which can be issued on request.

The biographies are taken from the Dizionario degli artisti edited by Cristina Bonagura, integral part of the work Pittori & pittura dell'Ottocento italiano (1996-1997), coordinated by Giuliano Matteucci with the cooperation of Paul Nicholls and realized by the Redazioni Grandi Opere of the "Istituto Geografico De Agostini", to whom the Matteucci Institute expresses its sincere thanks for authorizing the circulation of the texts on line.

 

Bevelacqua Francesco*

BEVELACQUA FRANCESCO
Cefalù (Palermo) 1814 - 1857
L'artista, solo recentemente riscoperto, si formò a Palermo e fu specialmente autore di ritratti, dal sostenuto disegno neoclassico, di notabili e aristocratici meridionali, oggi conservati in collezioni private siciliane: tra gli altri, il Ritratto di don Nicolò Agnello dei Baroni Ramata e Segneferi del 1833, il Ritratto di Giuseppe Benedetto La Calce del 1840; e anche, tra quelli ultimamente attribuiti, il Ritratto di don Rosario Ortolani di Bordonaro e il Ritratto del Barone don Vincenzo Agnello. Legati al recupero di forme tardomanieriste sono alcuni dipinti di soggetto sacro (San Stanislao, 1854; San Nicola di Bari; La Carità, coll.privata).
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