Giuseppe Maria Ficatelli
Giuseppe Maria Ficatelli (1639 – 3 September 1703) was an Italian mathematician and painter of the Baroque period.[1][2]
Biography
He was born in Cento, and pupil of Cesare Gennari, flourished in the latter half of the 17th century, and painted pictures for the churches of his native city.[3] He also published a treatise on Mathematics: Ristretto Aritmetico in 1675.[4] His sons, Paolo Antonio (1671 – 17 February 1724) and Stefano Felice Ficatelli (8 April 1686 – 5 September 1771), inherited his studio and were active local painters.[5]
References
- Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A–K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 483.
- ↑ Treccani Encyclopedia, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 47 (1997), entry by Fabia Farneti.
- ↑ Bryan uses spelling of Figatelli.
- ↑ Gli artisti italiani e stranieri negli stati estensi catalogo storico ... By Giuseppe Campori, pages 204.
- ↑ Trattato Aritmetico published in Bologna 1675.
- ↑ Treccani Encyclopedia entry.
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