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Pier Palma da Fermo

Italian painter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ27859490 ↗
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Pier Palma da Fermo (15th century) was an Italian painter in the provinces of Fermo and Macerata. He painted a venerated image (1475) of the Madonna della Misericordia for the church of the Madonna della Misericordia, Petriolo. The municipality of Monte Urano restored his fresco of the Madonna delle Nevi.

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“Pier Palma da Fermo” enters the record as italian painter. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pier, Palma and Fermo can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pier Palma da Fermo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.