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Francesco de Mura

Francesco de Mura (21 April 1696 – 19 August 1782) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Naples and Turin. His late work reflects the style of neoclassicism.

Francesco Mura

21 April 1696

19 August 1782(1782-08-19) (aged 86)

Life[edit]

Francesco de Mura, also referred to as Franceschiello, was a pupil of Francesco Solimena, then later with Domenico Viola, where he met his contemporary, Mattia Preti.


While still in his teens he painted frescoes (1715) in San Nicola alla Carità in Naples. He painted ten canvases of the Virtues and an Adoration of the Magi (1728) for the church of Santa Maria Donnaromita. His other works include frescoes of the Adoration of the Magi (1732) in the apsidal dome of the church of the Nunziatella. De Mura also painted portraits.


Among his pupils were Pietro Bardellino,[1] Giacinto Diano, Fedele Fischetti, Oronzo Tiso, Nicola Menzele and Girolamo Starace.[2]

Saint Benedict Welcomes Totila (vers 1710), study for the frescoes at the church of Santi Severino e Sossio, , Naples[3]

Capodimonte Museum

Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1725-1735), , London

Courtauld Institute of Art

Epiphany (1728), , Naples

Santa Maria Donnaromita

Adoration of the Magi (1732), , Naples

Nunziatella

Self-portrait (1740), oil on canvas,

Minneapolis Institute of Arts

The Departure of Aeneas (c. 1740), huile sur toile, 102,5 x 129,5 cm, , acquired 1969[4]

musée des beaux-arts de Brest

Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (1750), Minneapolis Institute of Arts

The Visitation (c. 1750), , Florida

Cornell Fine Arts Museum

Horatius Killing his Sister after the Defeat of the Curiatii (c. 1760), oil on canvas, private collection

The Continence of Scipio (1765), , Vicenza

Palazzo Leoni Montanari

L'Accord entre Camille et Turnus (1765), Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza

(1750–1760).

Christ at the Column

(1760–1770).

St. John the Baptist

(drawing).

Assumption of the Virgin

Hobbes, James R. (1849). . London: T. & W. Boone. pp. 293.

Picture collector's manual; Dictionary of Painters (Volume 1)

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Grove Art Encyclopedia abstract

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Short biography

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Aurora and Tithonus, prince of Troy

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Allegory of Malta

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