PALADINI, Filippo di Lorenzo - b. ~1559 Pistoia, d. 1608 Pistoia

Italian painter and sculptor, sometimes confused with the painter Filippo di Benedetto Paladini (1544-1614). He is best remembered for having completed in 1585 the frieze on the façade of the Ospedale del Ceppo in Pistoia, with the scene Giving Drink to the Thirsty, in painted stucco (not knowing the technique of polychrome glazed terracotta).

Paladini’s father, Lorenzo di Bartolomeo, was a Venetian bookseller, active in 1576 for the Ospedale del Ceppo in Pistoia, in whose documents he is quoted again on March 30, 1585, associated with his son Filippo, who appears as his procurator. Paladini, in fact, continued his father’s profession parallel to that of painter, his main activity.

Paladini married in 1575 Lucrezia Sereni, with whom he had two children: Lorenzo, who assisted his painter father, and Isidoro. After the death of Lucrezia in 1592 he remarried in 1593 with Persia di Giuliano Cilli with whom he had four children: Barbera, Arcangela, the most famous daughter, also a painter, Aurora and Luca.