Francesco Mancini-Ardizzone

He initially studied in Acireale under Antonino Bonaccorsi, but garnering a stipend from the municipality, he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, where, influenced by the school of Domenico Morelli, he became attached to the Realism style.

[4] From 1885 to 1886, he traveled to Rome, where he exhibited landscapes at the Mostre degli Amatori e Cultori (1886, In dicembre and Marina).

[5] He also painted for the Basilica of the Collegiata di San Sebastiano (Cupola and transepts, including Jesus emerges from the tomb, 1899–1901); in the Church of the Oratory of the Philippines (Holy Family), and the Palazzo Comunale.

In 1887 at Venice, he exhibited: Da Vietri ad Amalfi; Pioggia; Pattuglia; Il castello d'Arci.

Other works are: Tempo triste; Madre amorosa; and Il ritorno dei pescatori.