Having left Hüber, Gigante completed his course of study in 1821 under the guidance of Antonie Sminck Pitloo, a Dutch painter with an atelier in the neighborhood of Chiaia.

Around 1826 he was living in Naples in Vicoletto del Vasto 15, with Van Pitloo, Carl Götzloff and Teodoro Duclère (Duclerc).

[2] In 1837, Pitloo having died during a cholera epidemic, Gigante solidified his social standing as the primary exponent of the School of Posillipo.

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.

Along with Achille Vianelli[3] he was to be strongly influenced by a large colony of foreign painters then present in Naples including Huber and Pitloo.