Giovanni De Min (painter)
Giovanni De Min (Belluno, October 24, 1786- Tarzo, November 23, 1859) was an Italian painter and engraver, active in a Neoclassic style.
Biography
His parents were of humble origins; his mother, Lucia Schiochet, was the domestic servant of Francesco Maria Colle, a professor of the Atheneum of Padua. In Padua, Demin first apprenticed with Paolo De Filippi, who noting his skills, and with the patronage of the Falier family of San Vitale, had him enrolled by 1804 at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, directed by Lattanzio Querena. There he studied alongside Francesco Hayez, and was a pupil of the painter Teodoro Matteini and Pietro Tantini. In 1808, De Min was awarded a stipend from the Academy to study in Rome. There he fell under the influence of neoclassical artists such as Canova.
Returning to Venice, De Min mainly dedicated himself to fresco or panel decoration of houses and salons. His decorations (1817) of mythologic themes in the Palazzo Cicognara in Venice, using designs by Hayez, are now lost. The next year, in collaboration with Hayez he helped decorate the Palazzo of the Count Giovanni Papadopoli in San Marina with depictions of Leda, Diana and Acteon, Salmace and Hermaphrodite, Callisto, Venus and the Graces. He also painted The Four Elements and The Dream of Love for the casa Comello near
It is not clear how active he was as a professor, since by 1818, De Min had moved over to
Demin late in life moved to
He painted large oil canvases depicting the Resurrection of Lazzarus (1825), The Exile of the Ezzelini and the Profanation of the Temple for the church in
He engraved a series of scenes in Honor of the Empress Caroline Augusta of Bavaria (1818).[5]
One of his pupils was
References
- ^ The Palace Crescini has been destroyed, but frescoes were detached and placed at Banca Antoniana.
- ^ Della litteratura veneziana del secolo XIV: notizie ed appunti, by Count Filippo Nani-Mocenigo, page 213.
- ^ La Pittura Veneziana, Fratelli Alinari Editors, Florence, 1903, page 134.
- ^ Nani-Mocenigo, page 213.
- ^ Treccani Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 38 (1990) by Fernando Mazzocca .