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Filippo Tancredi (1655–1722) was an Italian painter.
Biography
[edit]He was born in Messina. His father was a minor painter and his mother was a sister of the painter Filippo Giannetto.[1] 1823 He trained in Naples, and afterwards visited Rome, where he entered the school of Carlo Maratta. He spent a great part of his life in Palermo, where he painted the ceiling of the church of the San Giuseppe dei Teatini, and that of the Gesù Nuovo. He died in Palermo.
References
[edit]- ↑ Giornale di scienze, letteratura ed arti per la Sicilia Volumes 3-4, Memoria di Pittori Messinesi by Giuseppe Grossi Cacopardi, (1823), page 97.
- Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 551.
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