Giacomo del Po

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name = Giacomo del Pó


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birthdate = 1654
location = Palermo
deathdate = Death year and age|1726|1654|
deathplace = Naples
nationality = Italy
field = painting
training = Pietro del Po, Nicolas Poussin
movement = Baroque
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Giacomo del Pó (1654-1726) was an Italian painter of the Baroque. He was born in Palermo (other sources say Rome or Naples), the son of Pietro del Pocite book| first=Michael| last=Bryan| year=1849| title="Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters and Engravers" (Volume I: A-K)| editor = Robert Edmund Graves| pages= page 583| publisher=George Bell and Sons|location=York St. 4, Covent Garden, London;Harvard University |id= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=NfcDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA583&lpg=PA583&dq=giacomo+del+po&source=web&ots=ChrjLZoAau&sig=i_lZyNUNeovhVLMxiQ0Rrjae3IM#PPA583,M1| authorlink=] . He first trained under his father, but afterwards by Nicolas Poussin. He was chiefly occupied in decorating the mansions of the Neapolitan nobility with emblematical and allegorical subjects. Rome possesses only two of his pictures, one in the church of Sant'Angelo in Pescheria, and the other in Santa Marta. He painted frescoes in the gallery of the Marquis of Genzano, and particularly in the palace of the Prince of Avellino at Naples. He died in Naples in 1726.

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NAME= Pó, Giacomo del
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= painting
DATE OF BIRTH= 1654
PLACE OF BIRTH= Palermo
DATE OF DEATH= Death year and age|1726|1654|
PLACE OF DEATH= Naples