Gennaro Greco

Gennaro Greco (1663–1714), also known as "Il Mascacotta", was an Italian veduta painter.

Greco was born and worked in Naples. His son Vincenzo Greco also became a painter. Greco was inspired to paint veduta after studying works by Andrea Pozzo.[1] He died after a fall from scaffolding while working on a ceiling fresco in Nola in 1714.[1] He is described by Dalbono as a painter of views of mutilated ruins (vedute di mutilato anticaglie).[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Gennaro Greco Brief Bio". Retrieved 2012-04-27.
  2. ↑ Storia della pittura in Napoli ed in Sicilia dalla fine del 1600 al principio del 1800, Volume 1, by Carlo Tito Dalbono, 1859, Naples, page 178.


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