Giuseppe Renda

Giuseppe Renda, called "l'Aroddu" (13 June 1772 - 20 October 1805), was an Italian painter.

The family lived in via Commendatore Leonardo Navarra, called "strada di li putieddi" (the street with small shops) because of the stands which were erected in this street during the free fair of the Company of Saint James.

[2] He started painting during his adolescence when one day, on a whim, he sketched the portrait of a chaplain on a wall with a charcoal.

[4] When his studies ended he went back to Alcamo, where he produced many paintings with religious backgrounds,[2] beginning in 1790.

[1] In 1796, after his father's death, Giuseppe Renda moved to the house in via Rossotti where his sister Antonina lived.