Costiera Amalfitana - Giacinto Gigante - Framed Print - 11"H x 14"W

Costiera Amalfitana - Giacinto Gigante - Framed Print - 11"H x 14"W

Giacinto Gigante was an Italian painter. He was introduced to painting by his father. He trained in the style of Jacob Philipp Hackert and was influenced by the technical drawing carried out at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts.

Gigante was strongly influenced by a large colony of foreign painters then present in Naples including Huber and Pitloo. Gigante learnt watercolour technique and the use of the panoramic ‘camera lucida’ method from Jakob Wilhelm Hüber.

He is one of the original members of the 19th-century Neapolitan "Posillipo School" of painting, named for the area where he lived in Naples.

The Amalfi Coast (Costiera Amalfitana) is a stretch of coastline on the southern coast of the Salerno Gulf in the Province of Salerno. The Amalfi Coast is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as a cultural landscape.