Antonio Catalano, also called Catalani or il Siciliano, (1560–1630) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and early-

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

periods.

Biography

He was born in

Messina Messina (, also , ) is a harbour city and the capital of the Italian Metropolitan City of Messina. It is the third largest city on the island of Sicily, and the 13th largest city in Italy, with a population of more than 219,000 inhabitants in ...

Sicily (man) it, Siciliana (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title = , population_blank1 = , demographics_type1 = Ethnicity , demographics1_footnotes = , demographi ...

, where he probably received some training from his father

Antonio Catalano the Elder Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language-speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular male ...

, also a painter, or one of the brothers,

Francesco Francesco, the Italian (and original) version of the personal name " Francis", is the most common given name among males in Italy. Notable persons with that name include: People with the given name Francesco * Francesco I (disambiguation), sev ...

Giovanni Simone Comande Francesco Comande (16th century) was an Italian painter of a Renaissance style, born and active in Messina, Sicily. He was a pupil of Deodato Guinaccia Deodato Guinaccia or Diodato (Naples, c. 1510 – 1585?) was an Italian painter of the Rena ...

. Both the elder Catalano and the Comandè brothers were pupils of Diodato Guinaccia in Messina.''Guida del Viagiatore in Sicilia''.
by Salvatore Lanza, Presso I Fratelli Pedone Lauriel, Palermo (1859), page LXII. He is thought to have studied in

Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption ...

, and strongly influenced by Federico Barocci. He painted a ''Nativity'' for the church of the Capuchins at Gesso, near Messina.

Sources

* 1560 births 1630 deaths Painters from Messina 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian Renaissance painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub