Pietro Martorana
Pietro Martorana (* 1705 in Palermo ; † 1759 ibid) was an Italian painter of the classicist late baroque in Sicily .
Life
Martorana was a member of a family of artists from Palermo. Nothing is known about his training. Stylistically, he appropriated the art of Gaspare Serenario , who was two years his junior and who had enjoyed his training in the painting workshop of Sebastiano Conca in Rome . Martorana created frescoes for the Palermian churches of Santa Rosalia, Santa Chiara and Santo Carlo. Together with Olivio Sozzi , also a Conca student, he decorated Pricipe di Butera's palace in Palermo on behalf of Michele Gravina Branciforte.
His son Gioacchino also became a painter.
literature
- Relazione della pittura fatta dal signor Pietro Martorana nella ven. Chiesa delle RR. monache di S. Rosalia di Palermo dell'ordine del patriarca S. Benedetto, sotto il felice governo della m. rev. madre abbadessa sr. Maria Fortunata Gervasi . Pietro Bentivenga, Palermo 1756 ( archive.org ).
- Fedele di San Biagio : Dialoghi familiari sopra pittura. Valenza, Palermo 1788, pp. 155, 244, 151–152 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Martorana, Pietro . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 185 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Martorana, Pietro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1705 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Palermo |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1759 |
| Place of death | Palermo |