Gaetano Piattoli (1703 – c. 1770) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Florence completing portraits.

Miracle of St Blaise, attributed to Gaetano Piattoli, located in Vinci, Tuscany

Biography

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His son, Scipione Piattoli (10 November 1739 – 12 April 1809) was a priest, of the Piarist order, an educator, writer and political activist, and a major figure of the Enlightenment in Poland.[1] His altarpiece of San Procolo heals a boy is displayed on the main altar of San Procolo, Florence. Gaetano trained with a French painter, Francesco Rivera, who lived in Livorno.[2]

Gaetano's wife Anna was a pastel artist, and his son Giuseppe Piattoli was also a painter.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Saltini, Guglielmo Enrico (1862). Le Arti Belle in Toscana da mezzo il Secolo XVIII ai di Nostri (book). Florence: Tipografia Le Monnier. pp. 43–44.
  2. ^ Biblioteca enciclopedica italiana, Volume 14, by Nicolo Bettoni; Milan (1831); page 136.
  3. ^ Profile of Anna Bacherini Piattoli in the Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800.