Pietro Martorana (1705–1759) was a Sicilian painter. He was the father of Gioacchino Martorana and a member of an extended family of decorators and artists from

Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan ...

. Martorana was born, lived and died in

, in the Mediterranean island of Sicily. He painted cycles of

fresco Fresco (plural ''frescos'' or ''frescoes'') is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaste ...

es in the churches of San Carlo, and Santa Rosalia, and in the Duomo. In 1736 he collaborated with Olivio Sozzi on frescoes in the Palazzo Butera.

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1705 births 1759 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Palermo 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub