Bernardo Celentano
{{Short description|Italian painter (1835–1863)}}
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Bernardo Celentano (23 February 1835 – 28 July 1863) was an Italian painter of the 19th century, who painted historical themes in the style of Realism.
File:Bernardo Celentano - Il Tasso infermo a Bisaccia.jpg, Starting to show Madness at Bisaccia (1863), now at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome]]
Early life
Celentano was born in Naples, where he first trained with Luigi Stabile. He subsequently attended the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, where he was instructed by Giuseppe Mancinelli. By 1860, he had moved to Rome where he had a brief and intense career.
Career
He was a colleague of Domenico Morelli and Filippo Palizzi, two other Realist painters. Among his two major paintings are Tasso, Starting to show Madness at Bisaccia and The Council of Ten (Il Consiglio di Dieci). His friend, Guglielmo de Sanctis published an essay of the last days of his life, and mentions that the painters Cesare Fracassini and Paolo Mei, as well as himself, were by his bedside at the time of his demise.[https://books.google.com/books?id=4wcoAAAAYAAJ&dq=Guglielmo+de+Sanctis&pg=PP7 Memorie: studi dal vero], 1901, Guglielmo de Sanctis.
The precocious death of such a talent was a cause of great distress among fellow artists. A conference in 1893 recalled his life, work, and posthumous influence.[https://books.google.com/books?id=xPIYAAAAYAAJ&q=Bernardo+Celentano Bernardo Celentano: conferenza letta nella R. Accademia di Belle Arti in Napoli] by his nephew, Pasquale Lubrano-Celentano, Introduction by Ferdinando Martini, Editor Luigi Pierro, Naples 1893.
Death
He died in Rome at the age of 28 and he was buried in the church of Sant'Onofrio al Gianicolo in Rome.
References
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- {{Bryan (3rd edition)|title=Celentano, Bernardo |volume=1}}
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Category:19th-century Italian painters
Category:Italian male painters
Category:Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli alumni
Category:19th-century Italian male artists
Category:Kingdom of the Two Sicilies people
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