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(1) Sebastiano Galeotti
(b Florence, 1676; d Mondovì, 16 Oct 1741 or 1746). He was trained in Florence under Alessandro Gherardini and later in Bologna under Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole. In the first decade of the 18th century he painted five lunettes with Stories of St Dominic in the second cloister of S Marco, Florence (in situ). These are clearly influenced by the work of Pietro da Cortona and Luca Giordano. Around 1710 he was in Pisa, where he frescoed the ceiling of the salon of the Palazzo Quarantotti (in situ). In 1715 he went to Parma to paint frescoes in S Teresa (mainly destr.; fragments, Parma, G.N.). He produced numerous works in that city, for example decorating the dome of the oratory of the Madonna delle Grazie, and painting frescoes in the Palazzo Pallavicino, the castle of Sala Baganza and in the chapel of the Blessed Virgin of the Angels in the cathedral (1716). While based in Parma he accepted work elsewhere: in 1722 in Rivoli, where he frescoed the atrium of the royal apartment. In 1725 he was in Vicenza, painting the ceilings in the Palazzo Porto-Breganze. From 1729 he was based in Genoa, producing some of his best work, and was influenced by the style of Gregorio de’ Ferrari. Surviving examples from this period include the fresco decoration of the church of the Maddalena, the frescoes of the Palazzo Spinola depicting the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche, and the Triumph of Virtue in the Palazzo Ravashieri–Negroni. His frescoes in the Palazzo dell’ Università are also important. In addition Galeotti worked in places far outside Genoa, for example in Savona, where he executed the fresco of the Assumption in the church of the Annunziata (now the oratory of the Cristo Risorto), and in Pontremoli, where he decorated the oratory of Nostra Donna. From 1738 he lived in northern Italy, first in Pinerolo, where he painted frescoes in the church of the Visitazione, and later in Cremona, where he decorated the Cavalcabò Chapel in S Agostino. In 1740 he was in Lodi to work in S Francesco and in the Palazzo Modigliani e Barni. He died in Mondovì, where he had gone to decorate the sanctuary.
Part of the Galeotti family
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