Antonio Scaglione was a 16th century provincial Sicilian

Sicily

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 architect

Architect

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, best known for his work in the Gothic

Gothic architecture

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 style, which he continued to promote long after Renaissance

Renaissance

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 architecture had superseded it in popularity. The church of "S. Maria di Porto Salvo" in Palermo

Palermo

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, which was begun in the Renaissance manner by Antonello Gangini (1478–1536), one of the few architects to attempt to promote the Renaissance in Sicily, was finished by Scaglione in true Gothic style.