Giuseppe Porcelli (Baroque painter)
Giuseppe Porcelli (born 1682) was an Italian painter, active in Messina.
Biography[edit]
Giuseppe was born in Messina and trained in Naples under Francesco Solimena. He painted for the churches of Sant'Antonio Abate and San Filippo de' Bianchi in Messina. He painted a San Pietro Nolasco for the church of San Carlo in Messina. Many of his works were destroyed by earthquakes.[1] or Vico Equense.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Dizionario biografico degli italiani Treccani, vol. 2, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, entry by Raffaello Causa, 1960.
- ^ Storia della pittura in Napoli ed in Sicilia dalla fine del 1600, a noi, by Carlo Tito Dalbono, published by Luigi Gargulio, Naples (1859), pages 63–64.