Sebastiano Lo Monaco (1750–1800) was an Italian painter active in
Sicily
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during the Rococo period.
Lo Monaco trained under
Olivio Sozzi Olivio may refer to:
* Olivio (restaurant), Dutch Michelin starred restaurant
People
* Olívio Dutra
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. He frescoed extensively with
Matteo Desiderato in the
Palazzo Biscari The Palazzo Paternò Castello di Biscari is a monumental private palace, still owned by a branch of the House of Paternò, located on Via Museo Biscari in Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. The highly decorative interiors are open for guided tours, a ...
of Catania, including the cupola in the Loggia dei Musici, painted with a ''Triumph of the Biscari Family''. He also frescoed in the Palazzo Reburdone in Catania. He later moved to live in Sortino, where he frescoed the church of the
Natività di Maria. Other works of Lo Monaco are found in
Lentini
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History
The city was founded by colonists from Naxos as Leontini in 729 BC, which in its beginning ...
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Ragusa Ragusa may refer to:
Places Croatia
* Ragusa, Dalmatia, the historical name of the city of Dubrovnik
* the Republic of Ragusa (or Republic of Dubrovnik), the maritime city-state of Ragusa
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Mineo
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Militello in Val di Catania
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Siracusa, and
Biancavilla
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18th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Italian Baroque painters
1750 births
1800 deaths
Painters from Sicily
18th-century Italian male artists
Kingdom of Sicily people
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