Pinacoteca Giuseppe De Nittis - Barletta, Italy - Art Museums on Waymarking.com

Housed in the Palazzo della Marra in via Cialdini , the art gallery regularly hosts temporary exhibitions.

The gallery houses the works of De Nittis donated to the city by his wife Leontine Gruvelle.

Giuseppe De Nittis (February 25, 1846 – August 21, 1884) was an Italian painter whose work merges the styles of Salon art and Impressionism.

De Nittis was born in Barletta , where he first studied under Giovanni Battista Calò. After being expelled in 1863 from the Instituto di Belle Arti in Naples for insubordination, he launched his career with the exhibition of two paintings at the 1864 Neapolitan Promotrice. De Nittis came into contact with some of the artists known as the Macchiaioli , becoming friends with Telemaco Signorini , and exhibiting in Florence .

In 1867 he moved to Paris and entered into a contract with the art dealer Adolphe Goupil which called for him to produce saleable genre works. After gaining some visibility by exhibiting at the Salon he returned to Italy where, now free to paint from nature, he produced several views of Vesuvius .

In 1872 De Nittis returned to Paris and, no longer under contract to Goupil, achieved a success at the Salon with his painting Che freddo! (Freezing!) of 1874. In that same year he was invited to exhibit at the first Impressionist exhibition, held at Nadar's. The invitation came from Edgar Degas, who was a friend of several Italian artists residing in Paris, including Telemaco Signorini, Giovanni Boldini and Federico Zandomeneghi. De Nittis was not accepted by all of the Impressionists, and did not participate in their subsequent exhibitions.

Works by De Nittis are in many public collections, including the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, British Museum in London, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. His paintings Return from the Races and The Connoisseurs are in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Name: Pinacoteca Giuseppe De Nittis Location: Via Enrico Cialdini, 74, 70051 Barletta BA, Italy Phone Number: +39 0883 538312 Web Site: [Web Link] Agency/Ownership: Public Hours of operation: 9,00- 19,00 ticket office closes at 18.15 Closed on Mondays. Admission Fee: 4€ Gift Shop: yes Cafe/Restaurant: no

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