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Pio Fabio Paolini or Pio Paolini (1620 in
Udine Udine ( ; ; ; ; ) is a city and (municipality) in northeastern Italy, in the middle of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic Sea and the Carnic Alps. It is the capital of the Province of Udine, Regional decentralization entity ...
– 1692) was an Italian painter of the
Baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...
period.


Biography

He migrated from Udine to Rome to become a pupil of
Giovanni Lanfranco Giovanni Lanfranco (26 January 1582 – 30 November 1647) was an Italian Baroque painter. Biography Giovanni Gaspare Lanfranco was born in Parma, the third son of Stefano and Cornelia Lanfranchi, and was placed as a page in the household of Coun ...
. In Rome, his masterwork was a ceiling fresco of ''Hope and Truth'' (1677-1679) for the church of
San Carlo al Corso San Carlo al Corso may refer to: * San Carlo al Corso, Milan, church in Milan, Italy * San Carlo al Corso, Noto, church in Noto, Italy * Sant'Ambrogio e Carlo al Corso Sant'Ambrogio e Carlo al Corso (usually known simply as ''San Carlo al Cors ...
. He was inducted into
Academy of San Luca The Accademia di San Luca () is an Italian academy of artists in Rome. The establishment of the Accademia de i Pittori e Scultori di Roma was approved by papal brief in 1577, and in 1593 Federico Zuccari became its first ''principe'' or director; ...
in 1678. After briefly returning to Udine, he relocated to Sicily, where he initially worked in
Catania Catania (, , , Sicilian and ) is the second-largest municipality on Sicily, after Palermo, both by area and by population. Despite being the second city of the island, Catania is the center of the most densely populated Sicilian conurbation, wh ...
, then in Messina, where he ultimately was buried. Many of his works in Sicily have been damaged by the earthquakes.Memorie de' pittori messinesi e degli esteri che in Messina fiorirono dal secolo XII sino al secolo XIX.
by Gaetano Grano and Philipp Hackert (1821); Presso Giuseppe Pappalardo, Messina. page 237-238.


References

1620 births 1692 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Sicily Artists from Udine {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub