Portrait of the painter Giuseppe Patania

In 1827, Andrea D’Antoni joined the studio of the painter Giuseppe Patania, an eclectic and prominent representative of Sicilian Neo-classicism and skilled portrait painter. In his first years of artistic work, D’Antoni portrayed his master and revealed his talent in this genre through introspective sensitivity and chromatic subtleties, which emerge from the intense luminosity of the face contrasting with the dark background.