Giuseppe Casciaro

(Ortelle, 1863 - Napoli, 1941)

signed G. Casciaro lower left
stamp Giuseppe Casciaro Napoli on the reverse

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Giuseppe Casciaro is considered one of the greatest Italian landscape artists with the pastel technique.

Although he had also consecrated his success abroad, he remained deeply linked to the city of Naples, in particular to the Vomero district where the artist lived until his death.

There are different versions of the Vomerese road, the best known today preserved at the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte dated 1879

The name Acitillo is said to derive from the acidic smell of the laundry water poured onto the ground by the famous washerwomen of Vomero. Along much of its route, according to other legends, a rich family named Acito lived in the area from whom he assumed the name the entire area.