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Gaetano Piattoli

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Pictre attributet to Gaetano Piattoli in Vinci

Gaetano Piattoli (1703 – c. 1770) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Florence completing portraits.

Biography

His son, Scipione Piattoli (10 November 1739 – 12 April 1809) was a priest, of the Piarist order, an educator, writer and political activist, and a major figure of the Enlightenment in Poland.[1] His altarpiece of San Procolo heals a boy is displayed on the main altar of San Procolo, Florence.

Gaetano's wife was a pastel artist and his son Giuseppe Piattoli was also a painter.

References

  1. ^ Saltini, Guglielmo Enrico (1862). Le Arti Belle in Toscana da mezzo il Secolo XVIII ai di Nostri (book). Florence: Tipografia Le Monnier. pp. 43–44.