Category:Pasquale Casillo

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"Pasquale". Cartolina postale.
  • English: The model who is called "Pasquale" in one of Gloeden's postcards, ranks amongst the two or three most pictured models among Gloeden's ones (he appears in at least 133 different takes). He is posed alone or with other models from early adolescence into adulthood. He appears in Gloeden's images a bit later than Pietro Mazza, being frequently featured in Gloeden's catalogue from number 522 through number 1758, when he is portrayed as an adult. After that, only a handful of older images of him was added to Gloeden's catalogue. However, he looks roughly the same ages as Pietro, so he must have been born around 1876/1879.
Pasquale also appears in photos shot in Naples by Gloeden, and in photos shot in Pompaeii by Gloeden's cousin Wilhelm von Plueschow. Gloeden photographed him in Posillipo with other models, and Pluschow shot him in the newly discovered Casa dei Vettii in Pompei in 1896/8.
The Galerie "Au bonheur du jour" say in their website his complete name was Pasquale Stracuzzi. https://www.aubonheurdujour.net/pasqualino/ adding that according to the information they gathered, Stracuzzi worked as a gardener at the Hotel Excelsior, and died in february 1977.
However, the envelope protecting the negative glass for the shot # 1248 at the Fondazione Alinari, in Florence, is inscribed with the identification as: "Pasquale Casillo, son of a goatman, Naples'". We have no idea about the relationship between Pasquale and Naples: his surname is very distinctly from Naples, not from Sicily, yet he was far too young, even for the lenient standards of the time, to be brought to Taormina, unless he was the son of a family immigrated to Taormina. Therefore there might currently be some confusion with the homonym, from a generation later, Pasquale Stracuzzi, who also worked in Gloeden's laboratory, and after Gloeden's death worked as a gardener. In fact, according to his grandchildren, Pasquale Stracuzzi never posed for Gloeden.

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