- Gaspare Traversi
Gaspare Traversi (c. 1722–1770) was a
Rococo painter best known for hisgenre works , and active both in his native city ofNaples , but also painted throughout Italy, including a stay inParma . He was active mainly between 1732-1769. He trained underFrancesco Solimena . He was a contemporary of other Solimena pupils,Giuseppe Bonito (1707-1789), also a genre painter, andFrancesco de Mura (1696-1784). Traversi's paintings typically depict animated groups of protagonists that seem squeezed into a pictorial space that can barely contain them. The scene is typically a dramatic dilemma or controversy. He is a Napolitan Crespi or Longhi, working in a Caravaggist style.Partial Anthology of works
References
*cite book | author= Francis P. Smyth and John P. O'Neill (Editors in Chief)| year=1986| title= The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries| chapter= | editor= National Gallery of Art, Washington DC| others= | pages= 373-378| publisher= | id= | url= | authorlink=
*cite book | first= Rudolf|last= Wittkower| year=1980| title= Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750| editor= | pages= pp 494-495 | publisher= Pelican History of Art (Penguin Books Ltd)| id= | url= | authorlink=
*Naples Exhibition in 2005 was titled "Gaspare Traversi. Napolitans of the 1700s between Misery and Nobility" [http://arte.stile.it/articoli/2004/01/16/495130.php]
*Stuttgart Exhibition: "Gaspare Traversi Amusement in the Shade" [http://www.staatsgalerie.de/aus_traversi/matrix.php]
*Parma Exhibition:"Luminary of the 1700s: Gaspare Traversi and his painting in Emilia", [http://www.lucesulsettecento.it/]
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