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.

1. Treccani Encyclopedia, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 47 (1997), entry by Fabia Farneti.
2. Bryan uses spelling of Figatelli.
3. Gli artisti italiani e stranieri negli stati estensi catalogo storico ... By Giuseppe Campori, pages 204.
4. Trattato Aritmetico published in Bologna 1675.
5. Treccani Encyclopedia entry.