Chirico Giacomo Di Biography
Giacomo Ernesto Eduardo Di Chirico (Venosa, Potenza, 27 January 1844 – Naples, 26 December 1883) was a very important Italian painter in the nineteenth-century Neapolitan school.
He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. In 1865, he began to frequent the studio of Tommaso De Vivo and the lessons of Francesco De Sanctis. Between 1868 and 1871, he lived in Rome to complete his artistic training and then returned to Naples, where he opened his own art studio and formed relationships with important colleagues, including Domenico Morelli and Filippo Palizzi.
The painting "Palm Sunday" was one of his masterpieces and won the silver medal at the exhibition held in Ferrara in 1874 on the occasion of the fourth centenary of Ariosto's birth. "Marriage in Basilicata" became very famous and was also exhibited abroad: Paris in 1877, Vienna in 1879 and Munich in 1882.
Di Chirico influenced the Venetian painter Giovanni Biasin who created a drawing entitled "Impression from a painting by Di Chirico", starting from the work of the Venosi artist. The painting was purchased by the French dealer Adolphe Goupil, who had other works by the painter exhibited at the Goupil & Cie exhibition in Paris.
Between 1877 and 1878, Di Chirico was one of the honorary professors of the Royal Institute of Fine Arts. However, his growing activity came to an abrupt end when he began to show signs of mental imbalance and, in 1882, he was confined in the Provincial Asylum." Leonardo Bianchi”. After several resignations and returns, Giacomo Di Chirico died in Naples in 1883, at just 39 years old.
