Litterio Paladino or Paladini (1691–1743) was an Italian painter of the 18th century, active in a late-

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style in

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and his native

Messina Messina ( , ; ; ; ) is a harbour city and the capital city, capital of the Italian Metropolitan City of Messina. It is the third largest city on the island of Sicily, and the 13th largest city in Italy, with a population of 216,918 inhabitants ...

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. His first name is also spelled ''Letterio''. He was born and had initial training in Messina. He traveled to Rome at the age of 38 years. There he was said to have worked with

Sebastiano Conca Sebastiano Conca (8 January 1680 – 1 September 1764) was an Italian painter. Biography He was born at Gaeta, then part of the Kingdom of Naples, and apprenticed in Naples under Francesco Solimena. In 1706, along with his brother Giovanni, wh ...

, but had an attachment to the earlier masters,

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Correggio Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 – 5 March 1534), usually known as just Correggio (, also , , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter who was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the High Renaissance, who was responsible for som ...

, and

Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael ( , ), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. List of paintings by Raphael, His work is admired for its cl ...

. His masterwork are frescoes (1736) for the church of Montevergine in

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. He also painted for the church of San Biagio, Santa Elena, and the Church of the Rosary (1732) in Castanea delle Furie neighborhood of

. There are works by him in Zaffaria, in Sampiero di Monforte, in the church of San Francesco di Paola, and of the Santissimi Rosario. He also painted some canvases for the Monastery of Santa Barbara in Messina. He was also an engraver. He died during the plague of 1743. His nephew, Giuseppe Paladino (1721-1794) was also a painter.Memorie de' pittori messinesi e degli esteri che in Messina fiorirono
by Gaetano Grano and Philipp Hackert, Presso Giuseppe Papalardo, Messina (1821), page 221-223.

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1691 births 1743 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters Painters from Messina 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub