Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
BARABINO, NICCOLÒ. - Painter, born in Sampierdarena in 1832, died in Florence in 1891. Gifted with extraordinary facility in fresco and oil painting, he enriched churches and public buildings with his compositions.
BARABINO, NICCOLÒ - Madonna dell'Olivo. Detail. Sampierdarena, cathedral.
He enriched churches and palaces with his compositions, displaying extraordinary facility in fresco and oil painting. Among his well-known works are Galileo before the Inquisition, in the Celesia palace; Columbus at Salamanca, in the Orsini palace; The Glorification of the Superb, in the Genoa city hall; The Glory of St. Andrew, on the ceiling of the church of the Duchessa di Galliera hospital; and the lunettes in mosaic for the façade of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. With an innate Tiepolesque fervor, he broke the bonds of the historical academism of the Florentine environment in which he had trained, drawing instead on the Romantic and verist experiences of Domenico Morelli. Some of his Madonnas, such as the very famous Quasi oliva speciosa in campis (in Sampierdarena), became popular. Barabino is considered the greatest Ligurian painter of the 19th century.
BIBL.: Anon., s. V. in Thieme-Becker, II, p. 452; G. Delogu, N. B., Bologna 1928; E. Somarè, Storia dei pittori italiani dell'800, Milano 1928, p. 35. Corrado Mezzana
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“BARABINO, NICCOLÒ.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), p. 471. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/barabino-niccolo.
