Niccolò Spalletta
Niccolò Spalletta or Niccolò da Caccamo (active in Caccamo and Palermo in the 16th century ) was an Italian Dominican priest and Renaissance painter in Sicily .
The dates of his life are just as unknown as his artistic career.
He created frescoes in Palermo in 1526 and in Caccamo in 1530 - each in the cloister of the Dominican monastery there - only fragments of which have survived in Palermo. In 1556 he painted frescoes in the Chiesa Santa Caterina in Termini Imerese .
Works
- Chiesa Santa Caterina ( Termini Imerese ): frescoes from the life of saints (1546)
- Chiostro di San Domenico ( Palermo ): "Scenes of the Apocalypse" and "Scenes from the life of Saint Dominicans" (1556).
literature
- Gioacchino Di Marzo : La pittura in Palermo nel Rinascimento. Reber, Palermo 1899, p. 293 and p. 295 ff. (Reprint. Forni, Bologna 1999).
- Spalletta, Niccolò . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 326 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spalletta, Niccolò |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Niccolò da Caccamo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1526 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Caccamo |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1556 |