Gaetano Piattoli
Gaetano Piattoli was an Italian painter, active mainly in Florence completing portraits.Biography
His son, Scipione Piattoli was a priest, of the Piarist order, an educator, writer and political activist, and a major figure of the Enlightenment in Poland. 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..
Gaetano's wife Anna was a pastel artist, and his son Giuseppe Piattoli was also a painter.
