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Gioacchino Martorana (19 August 1736 – 27 November 1779) was a
Sicilian painter. He was the son of
Pietro Martorana and a member of an extended family of decorators and artists from
Palermo.
Martorana was born in
Palermo, in the Mediterranean island of
Sicily
(man) it, Siciliana (woman)
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. When he was seventeen he went to Rome to study under his father's former pupil
Giuseppe Vasi, and also spent time with
Marco Benefial
Marco Benefial (25 April 1684 – 9 April 1764)
"Marco Benefial (Getty Museum)" (history),
The Getty Museum, 2006, webpage:
GM-Benefial.
was an Italian, proto- Neoclassical painter, mainly active in Rome. Benefial is best known for h ...
. He remained in Rome until the 1770s. He painted many religious subjects; much of his work shows the influence of
Sebastiano Conca
Sebastiano Conca (8 January 1680 – 1 September 1764) was an Italian painter.
Biography
He was born at Gaeta, then part of the Kingdom of Naples, and apprenticed in Naples under Francesco Solimena. In 1706, along with his brother Giovanni, who ...
and of
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (25 January 1708 – 4 February 1787) was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous allegorical and mythological pictures. The high number of foreign visitors tra ...
. After his return to Palermo he painted a number of portraits, including one of the Sicilian architect
Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia. He painted
frescoes in several palaces of the city, among them
Palazzo Comitini, Palazzo Costantino and
Palazzo Butera. These late works show the influence of the French
Rococo
Rococo (, also ), less commonly Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, ...
style introduced to Palermo by
Elia Interguglielmi.
Martorana died in Palermo on 27 November 1779.
References
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1736 births
1779 deaths
18th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Palermo
18th-century Italian male artists