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ANTONIO SOLARIO (c. 1382-1455)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 357 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTONIO See also:SOLARIO (c. 1382-1455)  , See also:Italian painter of the Neapolitan school, commonly called Lo Zingaro, or The Gipsy . His See also:father is said to have been a travelling See also:smith . To all See also:appearance See also:Antonio was See also:born at Civita in the Abruzzi, although it is true that one of his pictures is signed " Antonio de See also:Solario Venetus," which may possibly be accounted for on the ground that the See also:signature is not genuine . Solario is said to have gone through a love-See also:adventure similar to that of the Flemish painter, Quintin Massys . He was at first a smith, and did a See also:job of See also:work in the See also:house of the See also:prime Neapolitan painter Colantonio del Fiore; he See also:fell in love with Colantonio's daughter, and she with him; and the father, to stave him off, said if he would come back in ten years an accomplished painter the See also:young See also:lady should be his . Solario studied the See also:art, returned in nine years, and claimed and obtained his See also:bride . The fact is that Colantonio' del Fiore is one of those painters who never existed; consequently his daughter never existed, and the whole See also:story, as See also:relating to these particular personages, must be untrue . Whether it has any truth, in relation to some unidentified painter and his daughter, is a See also:separate question which we cannot decide . Solario made an extensive See also:round of study—first with Lippo Dalmasio in See also:Bologna, and afterwards in See also:Venice, See also:Ferrara, See also:Florence and See also:Rome . On returning to See also:Naples he rapidly took the first See also:place in his art . His See also:principal performance is in the See also:court of themonastery of S . Severinoe-twenty large frescoes illustrating the See also:life of St See also:Benedict, now greatly decayed; they See also:present a vast variety of figures and details, with dexterous modelling and colouring .

Sometimes, however, Lo Zingaro's See also:

colour is crude, and he generally shows weakness of draughtmanship in hands and feet . His tendency is that of a naturalist—the heads lifelike and individual, and the landscape backgrounds better invented and cared for than in any contemporary . In the Studj See also:gallery of Naples are three pictures attributed to this See also:master, the most remarkable one being a " Madonna and See also:Child Enthroned with See also:Saints." The heads here are reputed to be mostly portraits . Solario initiated a mode of art new in . Naples; and the See also:works painted between his See also:time and that of Tesauro (c . 1470). are locally termed Zingarescbi." He had many scholars, but not of pre-eminent See also:standing—Nicola Vito, See also:Simone Papa, Angiolillo Roccadirame, . Pietro and Ippolito dal Donzello . It has. often been said that Solario painted in oil, but of this there is no See also:evidence .

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