animal painter Giacinto Scilla (1650 c. -1711) (brother) ;
by Antonio Barbalonga & Andrea Sacchi in Rome, became church painter; studied fossils found in the hills of Sicily, accomp.by botanist Paolo Boccone
Italy
La vana speculazione disingannata dal senso (Napoli 1670) ; De Corporibus marinis lapidescentibus... Addita dissertatione Fabu Columnae de glossopetris ; La vana speculazione disingannata dal senso. Lettera risponsiva circa i corpi marini, che petrificati si trovano in varii luoghi terrestri ;
geological, paleontological, and zoological drawing, and copperplate engraving ;
Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 # 3780 ; ThB 30 1936: 395 ; Bruno Accordi: Illustrations of Kircher Museum Naturalistic Collections, Geologica Romana 25 (1976): 113-26, esp. 14 ; Marco Romano in: Historical Biology 2013 ; Davidson 2008: 18-23 ;
Self-trained naturalist & amateur collector; after participating in an unsuccessful revolt against Spanish rule, in 1678 he was exiled from Sicily. Scilla worked as a painter in Turin, then Rome for the rest of his life.
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