Sante Cattaneo [SEP] date of birth
Sante Cattaneo
Sante Cattaneo or Santo Cattaneo (August 8, 1739 – 1819) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic period, mainly active in Brescia.
He was also called "Santino". He was born at Salò, Italy. His parents traveled away and consigned him at age three to thirteen to his aunt. He then moved to Brescia to live with his mother, who worked in wool looms. He at first practised wood-engraving, but afterwards studied painting under Antonio Dusi of Brescia and then,
and third chapels have altarpieces by Sante Cattaneo depicting respectively "Jesus distributes Eucharist" and "Saints Benedict of Nursia and Scholastica".
The ceiling decoration dates to 1776, by Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari and Antonio Grassi, and encircles three large ovals by Cattaneo depicting "San Paterio offers his writings to St John Baptist", "Coronation of the Virgin" and the "Saints Benedict of Nursia and Scholastica". Cattaneo also painted the four monochrome prophes in the presbytery walls. The dome was decorated (now damaged) by Antonio