Antonio Catalani (Siciliano)
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Antonio Catalani (also called il Siciliano) (1560-1630) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods. He was born in Messina. He is thought to have studied in Rome, and strongly influenced by Federico Barocci. He painted a Nativity for the church of the Capuchins at Gesso, near Messina.
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- Bryan, Michael (1886). in Robert Edmund Graves: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, page 251.