Tommaso Laureti, called Il Siciliano (born in Palermo ca. 1530; died in Rome in 1602): presumably the son of a painter, and according to Vasari a pupil of Sebastiano del Piombo (died 1547) in Rome; from 1560-1562 in Bologna, 1563 fountain design for the Piazza Maggiore; 1582 summoned to Rome by Pope Gregory XIII, where he received multiple commissions for frescoes and paintings; 1595 'principe' of the Accademia di San Luca, Rome.
