Pietro Carattoli (1703 in

Perugia Perugia (, , ; lat, Perusia) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber, and of the province of Perugia. The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and part o ...

– after 1762) was an Italian painter of

quadratura Illusionistic ceiling painting, which includes the techniques of perspective ''di sotto in sù'' and ''quadratura'', is the tradition in Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art in which ''trompe-l'œil'', perspective tools such as foreshortening, an ...

. He also made some smale scale architectural designs, such as the portal of the

Cathedral of Perugia Perugia Cathedral ( it, Cattedrale Metropolitana di San Lorenzo; Duomo di Perugia) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Perugia, Umbria, central Italy, dedicated to Saint Lawrence. Formerly the seat of the bishops and archbishops of Perugia, it has b ...

. He was active in Perugia, where he painted for the chapel of sacrament in church of San Pietro, for the Palazzo Donini, and Palazzo Antinori

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Carattoli, Pietro 1703 births 1762 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Umbrian painters Quadratura painters 18th-century Italian male artists