Michele Cammarano (Naples 1835-1920) was a painter from a distinguished family of artists.
He attended the Neapolitan Academy of Fine Arts, where he was a pupil of Giuseppe Mancinelli and Gabriele Smargiassi, a landscape painter of the Posillipo School, he adhered to the latter’s verism and then switched to Palizzi’s veristic naturalism.
His early experiences were related to landscape painting, a genre to which he would also return later, achieving his best pictorial results.
He made his debut in 1855 at the Neapolitan Exhibition at the Royal Museum with the painting “Crociati che abbattono degli alberi in un bosco”.
(Crusaders felling trees in a forest).
In 1860 he enlisted as a volunteer in the National Guard to follow Garibaldi’s exploits.
Michele Cammarano move to Rome
In 1865 he moved to Rome, where he frequented painters Federico Faruffini, Cesare Fracassini and Bernardo Celentano.
In 1863 he exhibited in Naples “Ozio e lavoro” (Idleness and Work), a work with a social character that was purchased by Victor Emmanuel II, and in 1872 in Milan “La breccia di Porta Pia” (The Breach of Porta Pia), which earned him much praise.
La ville lumière
Between 1870 and 1875 Michele Cammarano stayed in Paris, where he met Gustave Courbet and Pierre-Paul Prud’hon.
He participated in the Salon with the work Un debito di giuoco.
In 1900 he returned permanently to Naples, where in 1902 he assumed the chair of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, formerly held by Palizzi, remaining there until his death.
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