Filippo Tancredi
La Visitazione (The Visitation) by Filippo Tancredi, Museo Regionale, Messina, 1533
Filippo Tancredi (1655–1722) was an Italian painter. He was born in Messina. 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
- Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 551.
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