MAGATTI, Pietro Antonio
(b. 1691 Varese, d. 1767 Varese)
Italian painter. He studied with Giovan Gioseffo dal Sole, but was also influenced by the seventeenth century Lombard painting (Our Lady of the Rosary, Varese, San Vittore). Subsequently he was affected by Venetian painting (e.g. Martyrdom of Saints Quirico and Giuditta, c. 1735, in Pavia, oratory Mezzabarba Palace).
