Placido Campolo

{{short description|Italian painter}}

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Placido Campolo (1693–1743) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, a native of Messina in Sicily. In Rome, he was the pupil of the painter Sebastiano Conca; in 1731, he returned to Messina to paint the Galleria del Senato. He died of plague in 1743.{{cite book| first=Michael| last=Bryan| year=1886| title=Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical |volume=I: A-K |editor=Robert Edmund Graves |page=223| publisher=George Bell and Sons|location=London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4GYCAAAAYAAJ}}

He painted for the cathedral and the church of Sant'Angelo de Rossi (Defeat of the Fallen Angels). He also helped to design the entrances and steps to the church of Monte di Pieta degli Azzurri.[https://books.google.com/books?id=pRgTAAAAQAAJ Memorie de' pittori messinesi e degli esteri che in Messina fiorirono.], by Gaetano Grano and Philipp Hackert, Presso Giuseppe Papalardo, Messina (1821), page 225-227.

Campolo has an entry in the Benezit Dictionary of Artists.{{cite web |title=Placido Campolo |url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/search?q=Placido+Campolo&searchBtn=Search&isQuickSearch=true |publisher=Oxford Art Online, Benezit Dictionary of Artists |access-date=3 December 2020}}