Filippo Tancredi (1655–1722) was an Italian painter.
Biography He was born in Messina. His father was a minor painter and his mother was a sister of the painter Filippo Giannetto.Giornale di scienze, letteratura ed arti per la Sicilia Volumes 3-4, Memoria di Pittori Messinesi by Giuseppe Grossi Cacopardi, (1823), page 97. 1823 He trained in Naples, and afterwards visited Rome, where he entered the school of Carlo Maratta. He spent a great part of his life in Palermo, where he painted the ceiling of the church of the San Giuseppe dei Teatini, and that of the Gesù Nuovo. He died in Palermo.
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