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He painted the images on wood of Saints Peter and Paul now at Palermo museum. The museum had once attributed them to followers of Antonello Crescenzio.
His first works in Palermo are a processional banner or ''Gonfalone'' (1485) for the Confraternity of Santa Elena in Liceo Garibaldi
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Sciacca
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, Sicily
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, 1443 - Palermo
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, 1506) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active in Sicily
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and Naples
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He painted the images on wood of Saints Peter and Paul now at Palermo museum. The museum had once attributed them to followers of Antonello Crescenzio.
His first works in Palermo are a processional banner or ''Gonfalone'' (1485) for the Confraternity of Santa Elena in Corleone
Corleone (; scn, Cunigghiuni or ) is an Italian town and ''comune'' of roughly 11,158 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, in Sicily.
Several Mafia bosses have come from Corleone, including Tommy Gagliano, Gaetano Reina, Jack Dragn ...
in 1485 During 1491–1501, he was active in Naples
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, working with Costanzo Moysis of Venice
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as a documented in the 1492 will by Quartararo and his wife Antonella Siscorsa. He also painted a ''Santa Cecilia'' for the Cathedral of Palermo.
Attributed to Quartararo are two painted wood tablets depicting two saints, one of the Saint Margaret, at the Museo Nazionale of the ancient Salvatore Monastery of Palermo. The original condition was poor and they were heavily retouched in later centuries. Also attributed to Quartararo are two wood canvases in private hands of a St John the Baptists and St James Major.entry.
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1443 births 1506 deaths People from Sciacca 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters Painters from Palermo Italian Renaissance painters {{Italy-painter-15thC-stub