Paolo Amato (architect)

Born in Ciminna, where the town hall and a circle in the local piazza are both now named after him, he studied under Angelo Italia and taught Giacomo Amato.

[2] His long and fertile career included time as official architect to the Senate of Palermo on Sicily, an office in which he designed stage sets and floats for the festivities for Saint Rosalia's day.

The Galleria regionale della Sicilia di «Palazzo Abatellis» in Palermo holds two drawings by him, both dating to the late 17th century and both collaborations with Antonio Grano.

The other is in brown ink with traces of black pencil, watercolour in shades of gray and amaranth on fine white paper, showing a design for a sacristy cupboard for a monastery.

Designs also survive from his collaboration between Andrea Palma for stage machinery, sets and temporary architecture produced for the celebrations of the arrival and coronation of Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia and Anne Marie d'Orléans between 3 October and 24 December 1713.