Vincenzo Severino

Vincenzo Severino (1859–1926) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Naples and Rome.

Biography Severino was born on March 10, 1859, in Caiazzo, near Caserta in the province of Terra di Lavoro.

He decorated in 1899 the Council Hall of the City hall of Sant'Agata de' Goti (Province of Benevento). He also painted the ceiling of the Church of the Carmine in Gragnano, and a large fresco for the Church of San Giorgio in Afragola. In 1909, he designed the cover of the book Jubilate printed on the occasion of the re-opening of the Cathedral of Nola.

In that cathedral he painted a number of works, including: the frescoes and decorations on the ceiling of the fourth chapel of the Nave (chapel of San Paolino). The frescoes in this chapel depict Seven Allegorical Angels: the first, alludes to his consular dignity; the second the Poetic Genius of the saint; the third the Artistic genius of the saint in building the Basilica of Cimitile; the fourth, his episcopal dignity; the fifth his Institution of the Countryside, the sixth his spirit of sacrifice in which he lived as a slave, and the seventh, his life as a farmer during his imprisonment. Severino painted a series of portraits inside medallions of the Bishops of Nola in the arcades and lateral walls.

Severino died on May 22, 1926, in Afragola near Naples.