Pacecco De Rosa

Adoration of the Shepherds (1630). Rome, Palazzo Montecitorio.

Pacecco De Rosa (byname of Giovanni Francesco De Rosa; 17 December 1607 - 1656) was an Italian painter, active in Naples.

Biography

He was a contemporary of Massimo Stanzione or, according to others, a pupil of him. De Rosa was influenced by his father-in-law, Filippo Vitale, also a painter: this is shown in his earlier works, such as a Deposition now in the Museum of the Certosa di San Martino. Also in the Certosa is a St. Nicholas of Bari and Basilius (1636), showing influences of both Stanzione and Domenichino, who was in Naples from 1631.

Attributed to De Rosa is a series portraying the Madonna with Child (one in San Martino, one in the Church of Santa Marta in Naples and one in the National Gallery of Prague). Of the 1640s is a painting, in collaboration with Vitale, of the Madonna with St. Charles Borromeo in the church of San Domenico Maggiore. His other works include an Annunciation in San Gregorio Armeno, St. Thomas of Aquino in Santa Maria della Sanità and the later Massacre of the Innocents in the Museum of Philadelphia and Diana Bathing in the Capodimonte Museum.

He died in Naples in 1656.

Works

• Saint Nicholas of Bari and Basilius (1636), San Martino, Naples
• Saint Agnes, Castello di Francavilla Fontana, Francavilla Fontana
• Virgin and Child, San Martino, Naples
• Madonna and Saint Charles Borromeo, San Domenico Maggiore, Naples
• Immaculate, San Lorenzo Maggiore Church, Naples
• The Martyr of Saint Lawrence, Lizzanello
• Massacre of the Innocents, Museum of Philadelphia
• Vision of Saint Anthony of Padua, Gemaldegalerie, Vienna
• Rachel and Jacob, Capodimonte Museum, Naples
• Appreciation of Paris, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
• The Rape of Europa, private collection, Naples
• Annunciation, San Gregorio Armenio, Naples
• Diana Bathing, Capodimonte Museum, Naples
• Saint Thomas Aquilas, Santa Maria Basilica, Naples
• Susanna e i vecchioni, Capodimonte Museum, Naples

Sources

• De Dominici, Bernardo (1742). Vite dei Pittori, Scultori, ed Architetti Napolitani, Volume III, number 24. Stamperia del Ricciardi, Naples; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on February 1, 2007.
• Della Regione, Achille (2006). Pacecco De Rosa: opera completa (Pacecco De Rosa: Complete Works). Naples.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Pacelli, Vincenzo (2008). Giovanfrancesco de Rosa detto Pacecco de Rosa. Naples: Paparo Edizioni.

External links

• Guide to De Rosa's works Template:It icon