Tommaso Pollace
Appearance
Tommaso Pollace (1748 – 1830) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassical style, active mainly in Sicily.
Biography
He was born in
Alcamo. In 1782, he began painting in a studio at Termini Imerese painting in Palermo for churches and for the Palazzo Celestri di Santacroce on Via Maqueda, and the Marchese of Santacroce's Villa di Mezzomonreale, now a military hospital. Pollace painted a Martyrdom of St John the Evangelist for the church of Santa Maria di Gesù in Petralia Soprana
.
The competition in Palermo from other artists including
References
- ^ Comune of Palermo, short biography.