Filippo Castaldi (circa 1710 – 1785) was an Italian portrait painter of the late-
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
period, active mainly in Southern Italy and
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...
.
Life
He was born in
Arpino, trained in Rome, but became a painter to the Royal court of Poland.
Le belle arti
Volumes 1-2, By Giovanni Battista Gennaro Grossi, Tipografia del Giornale Enciclopedico, Strada del Salvadore a Sant'Angelo a Nilo #48, Naples (1820); page 193.
References
1710 births
1782 deaths
People from Arpino
Painters from Lazio
18th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Italian Baroque painters
Polish painters
Polish male painters
18th-century Italian male artists
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