Giacinto Diano

Giacinto Diano or Diana (28 March 1731, Pozzuoli – 13 August 1803, Naples) was an Italian painter, active in Southern Italy in a style that mixes Rococo and Neoclassicism.

He began his training in the studio of Francesco De Mura, whose work would influence his early compositions.

[2] At that time Naples was enjoying period of great artistic and cultural achievement, due to the presence of the enlightened King Charles III.

Nicknamed o Puzzulaniello or referred to as il Pozzolano, Diano took little time to establish a prominent place in the art scene.

Among his best known are:[4] He spent his last years, ill and poverty stricken, in a small house in the Quartieri Spagnoli.