Michele Catti - Artist Info

About Michele Catti

  • Biography

    Michele Catti (5 April 1855 - 4 July 1914) was an Italian artist, considered one of the most important Sicilian landscape painters of the Belle Époque.

    Catti was born in Palermo on April 5, 1855 to Andrea Catti and Carmela Riotta. He was the second son in a family of 4 brothers and 3 sisters.

    His father, born to Michele Catti and Concetta Natoli of the princely family originally from Patti, belonged to a prominent family of judges and lawyers in the Bourbon administration.He wanted Catti to also start legal studies in Palermo and was therefore sent to his aunt Serafina Di Stefano in Palermo, as the family had relocated to nearby Carini.

    Although his father envisioned that he would follow him in his legal career, Catt...

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