Domenico Morelli worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Domenico Morelli as Italian painter (1826-1901).
Domenico Morelli was born at Naples in 1823. His recorded nationality is Italy. He trained at Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter, politician and visual artist.
His best-known work is Vittorio Emanuele III cradle. An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
Recognition followed: Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus.
That the work was made in Italy shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Domenico Morelli died in 1901, aged 78. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
- Notable work: Vittorio Emanuele III cradle
