Placido Campolo (1693–1743) was an Italian painter of the late-

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period, a native of

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. In Rome, he was the pupil of the painter

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 ...

; in 1731, he returned to Messina to paint the Galleria del Senato. He died of

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in 1743. He painted for the cathedral and the church of Sant'Angelo de Rossi (''Defeat of the Fallen Angels''). He also helped to design the entrances and steps to the church of Monte di Pieta degli Azzurri.Memorie de' pittori messinesi e degli esteri che in Messina fiorirono.
by Gaetano Grano and Philipp Hackert, Presso Giuseppe Papalardo, Messina (1821), page 225-227. Campolo has an entry in the Benezit Dictionary of Artists.

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1693 births 1743 deaths Painters from Messina 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters 18th-century deaths from plague (disease) 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub