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Filippo Tancredi

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La Visitazione (The Visitation) by Filippo Tancredi, Museo Regionale, Messina, 1533

Filippo Tancredi (1655–1722) was an Italian painter.

Biography

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He was born in Messina to a minor painter and his mother, who was sister of the painter Filippo Giannetto.[1] 1823 He trained some time 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 il Gesù Nuovo. He died in Palermo.

References

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  1. ^ 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.