Alessandro Ciccarelli or Alejandro Ciccarelli
Paintings
Alessandro Ciccarelli or Alejandro Ciccarelli Manzoni (Naples, 1808 - Santiago, May 5, 1879) was an Italian-Chilean painter.
Biography
He began his art studies at the Institute of Fine Arts in Naples and continued in Rome.
In 1843, Ciccarelli met Emperor Pedro II of Brazil, who hired him as court painter and teacher of painting of Empress Maria Theresa of Bourbon. At thirty-three, Ciccarelli became the leading artist of Brazil and in charge of reforming the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro.
Six years later, in 1849, he accepted the proposal Cicarelli consul of Chile, Carlos Hochkolf to found and direct the Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Santiago. For 20 years he was the director of that institution, which focused on the European academic tradition and Greco-Roman canons, ignoring both the creativity of its students and the aesthetic possibilities of the local landscape. In 1853 he received the Chilean nationality. Cicarelli left office in 1869, being replaced by German Ernesto Kirchbach and remained in Chile until his death.
Paintings
mainly using the technique of oil on canvas, attached to tradition and to the rules, made countless portraits and representations of mythological and religious scenes, although they were a correct application of the trade, left out creativity and innovation.
However, his work View of Santiago from Peñalolén (1853), held in the estate of the same name, is a different moment in the painting Cicarelli as notices a vibrant subjective and emotional look of the landscape expressed in warm colors by the self-portrait of the painter and the reiteration of the reason for the painting within the painting.
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