Giuseppe Porcelli (Baroque painter)

Giuseppe Porcelli (born 1682) was an Italian Baroque painter, active in Messina.

Biography

Giuseppe was born in Messina and trained in Naples under Francesco Solimena. He painted for the churches of Sant'Antonio Abate and San Filippo de' Bianchi in Messina. He painted a San Pietro Nolasco for the church of San Carlo in Messina. Many of his works were destroyed by earthquakes.[1] or Vico Equense.[2]

References

  1. ^ Dizionario biografico degli italiani Treccani, vol. 2, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, entry by Raffaello Causa, 1960.
  2. ^ Storia della pittura in Napoli ed in Sicilia dalla fine del 1600, a noi, by Carlo Tito Dalbono, published by Luigi Gargulio, Naples (1859), pages 63–64.