Gaetano Piattoli
Italian painter
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| Intro | Italian painter | ||
| Places | Italy | ||
| was | Painter | ||
| Work field | Arts | ||
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| Birth | 1 January 1703, Ferrara, Province of Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy | ||
| Death | 1774Rome, Province of Rome, Lazio, Italy (aged 71 years) | ||
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Gaetano Piattoli (1703 – c. 1770) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Florence completing portraits.
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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. 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.