Tommaso Pollace

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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

  1. ^ Comune of Palermo, short biography.