Francesco Comande (16th century) was an Italian painter of a

Renaissance style Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of Ancient Greece, ancient Greek and ...

, born and active in

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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. He was a pupil of

Deodato Guinaccia Deodato Guinaccia or Diodato (Naples, c. 1510 – 1585?) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Messina, Sicily. Biography Born in Naples, he moved to Messina as a young boy. In Messina, he became the pupil of the pai ...

.''Guida del Viagiatore in Sicilia''.
by Salvatore Lanza, Presso I Fratelli Pedone Lauriel, Palermo (1859), page LXII. His brother Simone Comande, born in 1588, was also a painter, and collaborated with his brother. Their styles differed with Simone having a style more influenced by the

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school. Simone painted a ''Martyrdom of St Bartholemew'' in Messina, and an ''Adoration of the Magi'' for the monastery of Basicò.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Comande, Francesco Painters from Messina 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Renaissance painters