What is Pietro Martorana?
{{Infobox artist | name = Pietro Martorana | image = | caption = | birth_name = Pietro Martorana | birth_date = 1705 | birth_place = [[Palermo]], Italy | death_date = {{death year and age|1759|1705}} | death_place = [[Baroque painting]] | field = frescos | movement = | works = | signature = }} '''Pietro Martorana ''' (1705 – 1759), was an [[Italians|Italian]] painter. He was a member of a family of artists from Palermo. He was one of the main representatives of the classic late Baroque painting in [[Sicily]].<ref>Donatella Germanó Siracusa Martorana. Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. </ref><ref>Martorana, Pietro. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Art Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press.</ref> Martorana painted [[fresco]]s in Palermo in the churches of Santa Rosalia, St. Chiara and St. Carlo. With [[Olivio Sozzi]]. He decorated the palace of Michele Gravina Branciforte, prince of Butera in Palermo. == Related pages == * [[Baroque]] * [[Gioacchino Martorana]] * [[List of Italian painters]] == References == {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Martorana, Pietro}} [[Category:1705 births]] [[Category:1759 deaths]] [[Category:18th-century Italian painters]] [[Category:People from Palermo]]