Pier Martire Armani

Pier Martire or Pier Martino Armani^[1](January 14, 1613–July 10, 1699) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born and worked in Reggio.

He trained as a pupil of Leonello Spada and Sebastiano Vercellesi. He was one of the artists called to decorate the Basilica della Ghiara in Modena.^[2]

References

1. A dictionary of painters and handbook for picture amateurs, Paschal Grousset - 1877, page 63.
2. Tiraboschi, Girolamo (1786). Notizie de' pittori, scultori, incisori, e architetti natii degli stati del Serenissimo Signor Duca di Modena. Presso la Societa' Tipografica, Modena; Digitized by Googlebooks. pp. 96–97.

Sources

• Ticozzi, Stefano (1830). Dizionario degli architetti, scultori, pittori, intagliatori in rame ed in pietra, coniatori di medaglie, musaicisti, niellatori, intarsiatori d’ogni etá e d’ogni nazione' (Volume 1). Gaetano Schiepatti; Digitized by Googlebooks, Jan 24, 2007. p. 79.
• Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum, ed. Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006. p. 11.