ALTAMURA, FRANCESCO SAVERIO. - Painter, b. at Foggia in 1826, d. at Naples on Jan. 6, 1897. He reacted against the academicism of the period, creating his own style within the veristic movement.
ALTAMURA, FRANCESCO SAVERIO - Portrait of his niece. Naples. De Luca Collection.
His paintings on religious subjects are numerous, among them Christ and the Adulteress, his first work (1847); The Daughter of Jephthah; Jesus at the Column; Christ among the Pharisees; The Dead Madonna and the Madonna in Heaven for the chapel of the royal palace of Naples; the Annunziata and other canvases for the church of Gastrignano de' Greci (Lecce). Among his paintings on historical subjects, The Triumph of Marius over the Cimbri (Naples, Capodimonte palace) was particularly admired.
Bibliography3 worksS. Altamura: Vita e Arte, Naples 1896; D. Morelli, E. Dalbono, La scuola napoletana di pittura nel sec. XIX, edited by B. Croce, Naples 1915
BIBL.: S. Altamura: Vita e Arte, Naples 1896; D. Morelli, E. Dalbono, La scuola napoletana di pittura nel sec. XIX, edited by B. Croce, Naples 1915; A. Comanducci, I pittori dell'Ottocento, Milan 1934.
Pisani, Saverio. “Altamura, francesco saverio.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, coll. 918–919. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/altamura-francesco-saverio.
MLA
Pisani, Saverio. “Altamura, francesco saverio.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, coll. 918–919. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/altamura-francesco-saverio.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec1_altamura_francesco_saverio,
author = {Pisani, Saverio},
title = {Altamura, francesco saverio},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {I},
pages = {918--919},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1948},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/altamura-francesco-saverio}
}
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