Riccardo Quartararo (

Sciacca Sciacca (; ; , , , or ) is a town and (municipality) in the province of Agrigento on the southwestern coast of Sicily, southern Italy. It has views of the Mediterranean Sea. History Thermae was founded in the 5th century BC by the Greeks, as ...

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, 1443 -

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, 1506) was an Italian painter of the

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, active in

and

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Riccardo Quartararo Der Erzengel Michael

He painted the images of Saints Peter and Paul on wood, and they are now at Palermo Museum. The museum had once attributed them to followers of

Antonello Crescenzio Antonello Crescenzio, known as Antonello da Palermo, who, according to De Marzo, was the son of Antonio Crescenzio, was born early in the 16th century, and practised both as a sculptor and a painter. He was an assistant to the sculptor Gagnino in ...

. His first works in Palermo are a processional banner or ''Gonfalone'' (1485) for the Confraternity of Santa Elena in

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in 1485 During 1491–1501, he was active in

, working with

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as a documented in the 1492 will by Quartararo and his wife Antonella Siscorsa. He also painted a ''Santa Cecilia'' for the

Cathedral of Palermo Palermo Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Palermo, located in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy. It is dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. As an architectural complex, it is characterized by the pr ...

. Attributed to Quartararo are two painted wood tablets depicting two saints, one of Saint Margaret, at the Museo Nazionale of the ancient Salvatore Monastery of Palermo. The original condition was poor and they were heavily retouched in later centuries. Also attributed to Quartararo are two wood canvases in the private hands of a St. John the Baptist and St James Major.Liceo Garibaldi
entry.

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1443 births 1506 deaths People from Sciacca 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters Painters from Palermo Italian Renaissance painters {{Italy-painter-15thC-stub