Odoardo Fischetti

Italian painter

The Interior of Vesuvius

Odoardo Maria Saverio Fischetti (30 April 1770, Naples – 15 November 1827, Naples)[1] was an Italian painter of landscapes and historical scenes in a Neoclassical style.

## Life and work

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He was born to the fresco painter Fedele Fischetti and his wife Marianna, née Borrelli. His father provided his first lessons in art.[2] His younger brother, Alessandro [it], also became a painter.

From 1803 to 1804, he made additions to his father's frescoes at the Palace of Portici. In 1805, he created some vedute in gouache, depicting the interior of Vesuvius.[3] They were commissioned by Duke Ascanio Della Torre, the author of various scientific reports on the volcano's eruptions.[2]

With the arrival of the French Napoleonic administration of Joachim Murat in 1808, he painted a series of historical canvases, including Murat Directs the Capture of Capri from Massa Lubrense and its companion piece, Capture of Capri by the French. He became a master of design at the Royal College of the Navy [it] in 1809.[4] During the following years, he would work at the Royal Palace of Caserta and in San Leucio.[3]

After the fall of Murat in 1815, he devoted himself almost entirely to religious paintings. These include a Virgin, Saint Blaise, Andrea, Erasmo and Alfonso Maria de Liguori (1821), for the Ccollegiata di San Giovanni Battista in Avella; a Madonna and Child between Saints Simon and Jude; for the church of Santa Maria della Mercede a Montecalvario; a Transport of the Holy Ark (1823), for the church of San Biagio in Cardito; and a Saint Francis receiving the Stigmata, for the Oratorio della Confraternita dei Bianchi dei Santi Francesco e Matteo [it] in Naples.[2]

The French Capture of Capri

He was married twice: to Emilia Catozzi, with whom he had four children, and Maria Giuseppa Milzi, who gave him another five.

## References

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1. ^ "Death certificate". www.antenati.san.beniculturali.it/. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
2. ^ a b c Biography of Fischetti by Francesca Bertozzi, from the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani @ Treccani
3. ^ a b Istituto Matteucci biography.
4. ^ Ricerche su l'origine, su i progressi, e sul decadimento delle arti, 1821, by Giovanni Battista Gennaro Grossi, page 31.

## External links

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Media related to Odoardo Fischetti at Wikimedia Commons

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