Deodato Guinaccia or Diodato (Naples, c. 1510 – 1585?) was an Italian painter of the

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period, active mainly in

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Biography

Born in

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, he moved to Messina as a young boy. In Messina, he became the pupil of the painter

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, who had moved there after the 1528 Sack of Rome. Guinaccia painted the ''Trinity'' for the church of the Confraternita de Pellegrini in Messina. He painted a ''Transfiguration'' for the church of San Salvatore de Greci. He painted an ''Adoration of Christ-child'' for the church of San Giacomo (Milazzo) in Messina, a ''Nativity'' for the church of the Cappuccini in

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, a ''Martyrdom of Santa Lucia'' for the church of Santa Lucia alla Badia in Siracusa; and an ''Immaculate Conception'' for the church of Santa Maria del Gesu in Messina. Among the pupils of Guinaccia in Messina were Cesare di Napoli,

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and

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, and Antonio Catalano the Elder.''Guida del Viagiatore in Sicilia''.
by Salvatore Lanza, Presso I Fratelli Pedone Lauriel, Palermo (1859), page LXII.

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