Deodato Guinaccia
Deodato Guinaccia or Diodato (Naples, c. 1510 – 1585?) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Messina, Sicily.[1]
Biography
Born in Naples, he moved to Messina as a young boy. In Messina, he became the pupil of the painter Polidoro da Caravaggio, who had moved there after the 1528 Sack of Rome.
Guinaccia painted the Trinity for the church of the Confraternita de Pellegrini in Messina. He painted a Transfiguration for the church of San Salvatore de Greci. He painted an Adoration of Christ-child for the church of San Giacomo (Milazzo) in Messina, a Nativity for the church of the Cappuccini in
Among the pupils of Guinaccia in Messina were
References
- Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.). Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. London: Woodfall & Kinder. p. 80.
- Sicilian artists.
- ^ Garollo, Gottardo (1907). Ulrico Hoepli (ed.). Dizionario biografico universale. Editore Libraio della Real Casa, Milan. p. 1000.
- ^ Guida del Viagiatore in Sicilia., by Salvatore Lanza, Presso I Fratelli Pedone Lauriel, Palermo (1859), page LXII.
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