Gaspare Landi
{{Short description|Italian painter (1756–1830)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| birth_date = {{birth date|1756|1|6|df=yes}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|1830|2|28|1756|1|6|df=yes}}
| nationality = Italian
| known_for = Painting
| image = Gaspare Landi - Self-Portrait - WGA12434.jpg
| caption = Self-portrait (1806)
| birth_place = Piacenza, Duchy of Parma
| death_place = Piacenza, Duchy of Parma
| awards = Order of the Iron Crown
| office = President of the Accademia di San Luca
| termstart = {{start date|1817}}
| termend = {{end date|1820}}
| predecessor = Antonio Canova
| successor = Alessandro Massimiliano Laboureur
}}
Gaspare Landi (6 January 1756 – 28 February 1830) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic period, active in Rome and his native city of Piacenza.
Biography
Landi is said to have been a fun-loving youth, but in 1781 he procured a subsidy to study painting in Rome from patron and distant relative, Marquis Giambattista Landi. At age 25, he moved to Rome to work under Domenico Corvi and Pompeo Battoni. He is considered a rival of Vincenzo Camuccini.
Two of his pictures were once in the Pinacoteca at Parma, Diomedes and Ulysses bearing off the Palladium (1783) and the Marriage of Abraham and Sarah. Above one of the altars in the church of the Santa Casa at Loreto there is a later work by this Landi showing the Madonna addolorata. A major work is his large canvas representing the fainting of Christ as he struggles along over the road to Calvary weighted down by the burden of the Cross, Lo Spasimo for San Giovanni in Canale at Piacenza.[https://archive.org/details/gliartistipiace00ambigoog Gli artisti piacentini, cronaca ragionata] By Luigi Ambiveri Tipografia Francesco Solari, Piacenza, 1879. page 175. It hung opposite Vincenzo Camuccini's Presentation. He painted a Deposition of the Virgin in the Tomb and Apostles at the empty Tomb of the Virgin (1804) for the choir of the Duomo of PiacenzaL. Ambiveri, page 174-175.
Landi became a member of the Accademia di San Luca of Rome in 1805, professor of the theory of painting in 1812, and president of the Academy in 1817. He was also made a Chevalier of the Order of the Iron Crown by the Emperor, of the Order of Saint Joseph, and of a Neapolitan order by the King of Naples.L. Ambiveri, page 186-188. About 1820 he returned to Piacenza, intending to remain there, but soon tired of the monotonous existence of a provincial town and in 1824 reestablished himself at Rome. His last work was an Assumption and was placed in the church of San Francesco di Paola in Naples. He was offered a post as professor of the Academy of Venice, but stayed instead a president of the Academia di San Luca.L. Ambiveri, page 186-191.
He returned to Piacenza in 1829, where he died.
Selected paintings
Hebe, Cup-bearer of the Gods - Gaspare Landi (1790).jpg|Hebe Nursing Jupiter,
in the Form of an Eagle
Gaspare Landi, Ritratto di Bianca Milesi, 1811-1814 ca.jpg|Bianca Milesi
Gaspare Landi - Portrait of Onofrio Boni - WGA12433.jpg|The architect,
Onofrio Boni
Gaspare Landi - Portrait of Canova - WGA12435.jpg|Antonio Canova
Gaspare Landi Porträt einer Dame im Empiregewand.jpg|Lady in an
Empire Style Dress
(Venice) Cupid and Psyque, 1787-1794 - Museo Correr.jpg|Cupid and Psyche
References
- {{cite book | first=Ashton|last=Rollins Willard| year=1900| title=History of Modern Italian Art| pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_GBPHNHXg7CIC/page/n317 274]–278| publisher= Longmans, Green & Co. |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_GBPHNHXg7CIC| quote=Ashton Rollins Willard History Modern.}}
- {{cite book| first=Michael| last=Bryan| year=1889| title=Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical |volume=II L-Z |editor=Walter Armstrong |editor2=Robert Edmund Graves |page=11 | publisher=George Bell and Sons|location=London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K2cCAAAAYAAJ}}
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Category:Painters from Piacenza
Category:18th-century Italian painters
Category:Italian male painters
Category:19th-century Italian painters
Category:19th-century Italian male artists
Category:Italian neoclassical painters