Pietro Martorana

Pietro Martorana  (1705 – 1759), was an 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.Donatella Germanó Siracusa Martorana. Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Martorana, Pietro. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Art Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Martorana painted frescos 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

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Category:18th-century Italian painters
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