Vito D’Anna’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Italian painter
A.K.A. Vito D’ Anna, Vite D’Anna, Vito d’ Anna
Was Painter 
From Italy 
Type Arts 
Gender male
Birth 4 October 1718, Palermo, Province of Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Death 13 October 1769, Palermo, Province of Palermo, Sicily, Italy
(aged 51 years)

Vito D’Anna (14 October 1718 – 13 October 1769) was an Italian painter, considered the most prominent painter of Palermitan rococo and one of the most important artists of Sicily.

Biography

He was the father of Alessandro D’Anna, the brother-in-law of Francesco Sozzi, and the son-in-law of Olivio Sozzi.

He studied under Pietro Paolo Vasta from 1736 to 1744, when he returned to Palermo. In Acireale, he had painted Portrait of the Provost Gambino, (the work is found in the sacristy of the Cathedral).

In Palermo, Vito married the daughter of the Catanese painter Olivio Sozzi. Sozzi helped arrange D’Anna to work with the circle of an aged Corrado Giaquinto in Rome.

D’Anna frescoed a number of palaces, and the churches of San Sebastiano, San Matteo and del Salvatore in Palermo. Among his works were: his fresco of the Madonna dei Raccomandati in the church of the same name, his Nativity in the church della Grotta, Self-portrait in the Galleria Zelantea. His nephew, Giuseppe Patania, was also a painter.

Works

  • Apotheosis of St. Dominic or Gloria dei santi domenicani, 1751, frescos of the dome, church Santa Caterina, Palermo.
  • The Triumph of Minerva, 1751, fresco, Palazzo Benenati Ventimiglia, Palermo.
  • Allegory of Virtues, 1751, frescos, Palazzo Benenati Ventimiglia, Palermo.
  • Il Trionfo dei Re Magi, 1751–52, fresco, Chiasa dei Tre Re, Palermo.
  • Trinità, oil on wood, Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo.
  • Apotheosis of Palermo, 1760, fresco of the ballroom, Palazzo Isnello, Palermo.
  • Allegory of Political Virtues, 1762, fresco of the ballroom, Palazzo Alliata di Pietratagliata, Palermo.
  • Glory of the Princes of Resuttana, 1762, fresco of the ballroom, Villa Resuttana, Palermo.
  • Glory of St. Basil, 1763–65, frescos, church of Santissimo Salvatore, Palermo.

    Honors

    • In 1762 he was elected a member of the Academy of Saint Luke
    • In 1765 he was named Count palatine
    • In 1765 he became a Knight of the Order of the Golden Spur
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