Angelo di Costanzo
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( fl c. 1450-1500). Italian painter. A Syracusan whose identity was established by an inscription and date (no longer legible) on a panel of St Jerome (Syracuse Cathedral, Sacristy), painted for S Girolamo fuori le Mura. His relationship with his fellow Sicilian Antonello da Messina is not clear; it has been suggested that they were students together in Naples, but it seems more likely that Costanzo was influenced by Antonello in the 1470s than that they shared a common background in the 1440s. The St Jerome is strongly Netherlandish in character, ultimately reflecting a prototype by Jan van Eyck. Di Marzo read the date as 1468 and considered the painting to be an advanced work for a provincial artist, both in its use of perspective and its subtle lighting effect. Longhi suggested that the date had been mistranscribed, and a date of c. 1480 is generally accepted. If dated c. 1480, it is possible for some details, such as the carved prie-dieu, oriental rug and illusionistic corbel, to be credited to the influence of Antonello's Annunciation (1474; Syracuse, Pal. Bellomo).
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Angelo di Costanzo
Angelo di Costanzo (c. 1507 – 1591), Italian historian and poet, was born at Naples about 1507.
He lived in a literary circle, and fell in love with the beautiful Vittoria Colonna. His great work, Le Istorie del regno di Napoli dal 1250 fino al 1498, first appeared at Naples in 1572, and was the fruit of thirty or forty years labour; but nine more years were devoted to the task before it was issued in its final form at Aquila (1581).
It is one of the best known histories of Naples, and the style is distinguished by clearness, simplicity and elegance.
References
- Girolamo Tiraboschi, Storia della letteratura italiana, vol. vii. (Florence, 1812).
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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