{"title":"Nittis, Giuseppe de","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGiuseppe De Nittis (1846-1884)\u003c\/strong\u003e was one of the most important Italian painters of the 19th century, whose work merges the styles of Salon art and Impressionism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDe Nittis was born in Barletta, in the region of Apulia, where he lived with his family in the wealthiest district of the city near the intersection of the Corso Vittorio Emanuele and the Corso Garibaldi, just around the corner from the birthplace of another famous painter and contemporary, Geremia Discanno.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBarletta at the time of the Bourbons, and in particular during the reign of Ferdinand II, nicknamed the \"Bomb King\" for having his own subjects cannonaded, was an extremely class-oriented city and those who could afford it gathered regularly near De Nittis' home beneath the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher with its bronze Colossus of Heraclius in front. Situated on the Adriatic coast, Barletta's port thrived as a point of embarkation for the privileged travelling to or returning from the east.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis father, Raffaele, was a wealthy landowner who could afford to send his son to study under Giovanni Battista Calò, who tutored other notable Barlettan painters including Vincenzo De Stefano, Giuseppe Gabbiani, and Raffaele Girondi. But, Raffaele was publicly outspoken in his opposition to the Bourbon monarchy and support for the unification of Italy, so was imprisoned for two years. Still, Giuseppe managed to gain admittance to the Reale Instituto di Belle Arti, a university-level art school in Naples founded by King Charles VII of Naples in 1752. Like his father, though, Giuseppe openly spoke his mind, resulting in his expulsion from the Institute in 1863 for insubordination. After his expulsion, he launched his career with the exhibition of two paintings at the 1864 Neapolitan Promotrice. De Nittis came into contact with some of the artists known as the Macchiaioli, becoming friends with Telemaco Signorini and exhibiting in Florence. He also renewed his acquaintance with his former neighbor, Geremia Discanno, and both De Nittis and Discanno exhibited in Turin in 1867 and sold work there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1867 he moved to Paris and entered into a contract with the art dealer Adolphe Goupil, which called for him to produce saleable genre works. After gaining some visibility by exhibiting at the Salon he returned to Italy where, feeling free to paint from nature, he produced several views of Vesuvius.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1872 De Nittis returned to Paris and, no longer under contract to Goupil, achieved a success at the Salon with his painting Che freddo! (It's So Cold!) of 1874 (Private collection). In that same year he was invited to exhibit at the First Impressionist Exhibition, held at Nadar's. The invitation came from Edgar Degas, who was a friend of several Italian artists residing in Paris, including Telemaco Signorini, Giovanni Boldini, and Federico Zandomeneghi. De Nittis was not accepted by all of the Impressionists and did not participate in their subsequent exhibitions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA trip to London resulted in a number of Impressionistic paintings. In 1875 De Nittis took up pastels, which became an important medium for him in his remaining years and which he helped popularise. Back in Paris, where his home was a favourite gathering place for Parisian writers and artists as well as for expatriate Italians, he executed pastel portraits of sitters including De Goncourt, Zola, Manet, and Duranty. He preferred pastels as the medium for his largest works, such as the triptych entitled Races at Auteuil (1881).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDe Nittis exhibited twelve paintings in the Exposition Universelle of 1878 and was awarded a gold medal. In that same year he received the Légion d’honneur.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1884, at the age of 38, De Nittis died suddenly of a stroke at Saint-Germain-en-Laye. His wife, the Parisian Léontine Lucile Gruvelle (married in 1869), donated his paintings to the town of Barletta, and they are now gathered in the Pinacoteca De Nittis in the Palace of the Marra in the hometown of the painter.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"nittis-giuseppe-de-1846-1884-la-place-des-pyramides-1875","title":"Nittis, Giuseppe De (1846-1884) - La Place des Pyramides 1875","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtwork by Italian Impressionist artist Giuseppe de Nittis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download consists of 1 image in JPEG format that is 600dpi and 4410 pixels wide by 5634 pixels tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe picture is out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use it in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead more about \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/nittis-giuseppe-de\" title=\"Giuseppe de Nittis\"\u003eGiuseppe de Nittis\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 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