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Giacomo del Pò (1654 – 1726)

• Was an Italian painter of the Baroque.
• He was born in Palermo (other sources say Rome or Naples).
• He was the son of Pietro del Pò who was also his teacher.
• He was admitted to the Roman Accademia di San Luca.
• He was chiefly occupied in decorating the mansions of the Neapolitan nobility with emblematical and allegorical subjects.
• He was a contributor to the scenography of the operas Giasone, il Minotauro, and Arianna at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples.
• He collaborated with Francesco di Maria and Francesco de Mura, in the frescoes for the Palazzo Carafa and the palace of the Prince Caracciolo de Avellino.
• He also painted in the Basilica of San Antonio and the cathedral in Sorrento.
• He painted frescoes in the Belvedere palace in Vienna for Eugene of Savoy.
• He died in Naples in 1726.