He was the father of Gioacchino Martorana and a member of an extended family of decorators and artists from Palermo.
[1] Martorana was born, lived and died in Palermo, in the Mediterranean island of Sicily.
He painted cycles of frescoes in the churches of San Carlo, Santa Chiara [it] and Santa Rosalia, and in the Duomo.
[1][2] In 1736 he collaborated with Olivio Sozzi on frescoes in the Palazzo Butera.
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