Alfonso Simonetti (1840 – 1892) - Melodia d'altri tempi

Alfonso Simonetti (Naples, December 29, 1840 – Castrocielo, August 22, 1892) Melody of times past
dimensions with frame 60x50 cm.
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the frame is not part of the work but is a gift

Alfonso Simonetti (Naples, December 29, 1840 – Castrocielo, August 22, 1892) was an Italian painter.

Biography
A Romantic-style painter, Alfonso Simonetti was the son of the painter Giuseppe and Vincenza Piccirillo. He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, where he enrolled in 1859 and studied under Gabriele Smargiassi and Giuseppe Mancinelli. In 1864 he obtained a grant for a Pensionato in Florence. He debuted at the Promotrice Napoletana exhibition of 1862 with the canvas “Ettore Fieramosca al monte Gargano.”[1] In 1873 he made a life portrait of Giuseppe Verdi and in 1876 he was commissioned a portrait of Claudio Monteverdi.

Besides portraits, he favored historical themes and landscapes, sometimes painted with nocturnal effects and with moonlit reflections, of which he moderated the luminosity in varying degrees. At the National Exhibition in Turin of 1880 — which served as a launchpad for many artists from the southern area — he exhibited the canvases The Malaria and The Serenade, the latter enveloped in a sparse nocturnal atmosphere.[2] In Naples, in 1877, he presented two paintings: Without Hope She is Dead and The Last Ray.

He also depicted urban landscapes, such as Via Giuseppe Mancinelli. In Milan, in 1882, he sent Again Not Return and After the Hurricane. In 1883, in Rome, he presented a landscape titled Sunset and in 1887, in Venice, he sent Forest and Olive Harvest. In London, at the Exhibition of Italian Art, he presented Forest and Castrocielo, in addition to the historical-themed canvas Gutenberg, Faust and Coeffer print the first page of the Bible. He was named in 1872 honorary professor of the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples.