Word: giaquinto
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...families. They controlled a great capital: with 400,000 people, Naples was the largest city in Italy and, after London and Paris, the third largest in Europe. Its need for conspicuous display and luxury kept architects and builders in constant work. A few of them, like the artists Corrado Giaquinto (1703-66) and Francesco Solimena (1657-1747), or the architect Ferdinando Sanfelice (1675-1748), were touched with extraordinary talent. Most of the rest could deploy the kind of rhetorical eloquence and high technical polish that court art demands. Then there was a continuous infusion of foreign artists, German, French...