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Pacecco [Rosa, Giovan Francesco de]
(b Naples, 17–27 Dec 1607; d Naples, Oct 1656). Italian painter. He was the son of the painter Tommaso de Rosa. His first teacher was his stepfather, the Caravaggesque painter Filippo Vitale, with whom he was associated until Vitale’s death in 1650. His sister, Maria Grazia de Rosa, married Giovanni Dò, and another sister, Diana or Annella de Rosa (b 1602), also a painter, married Agostino Beltrano. Pacecco continued his studies under Massimo Stanzione, whose elegant classicism was of fundamental importance to the development of his art, and he was one of Stanzione’s most gifted pupils. The naturalism of Vitale dominates his earliest works (1625–30), such as the Virgin and Child (Naples, S Marta) and the Virgin of Purity (Naples, S Maria del Divino Amore).
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