# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/agostino-scilla
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:30:40.144Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/agostino-scilla"
name: "Agostino Scilla"
slug: "agostino-scilla"
description: "Agostino Scilla was an Italian Baroque painter, paleontologist, geologist, numismatist, and a pioneer in the study of fossils and in scientific illustration. In addition to his paintings, he published an early text on paleontology: La vana speculazione disingannata dal senso which was introduced to English audiences by William Wotton of the Royal Society in 1696. He was among the first to promote a scientific understanding of fossils in contrast to fantastic Biblical and divine interpretations."
tagline: "Italian painter, paleontologist, geologist, and pioneer in the study of fossils (1629–1700)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Agostino_Scilla_-_Portrait_of_an_Artist_%28said_to_be_Andrea_Sacchi%29_-_25.230_-_Museum_of_Fine_Arts.jpg/330px-Agostino_Scilla_-_Portrait_of_an_Artist_%28said_to_be_Andrea_Sacchi%29_-_25.230_-_Museum_of_Fine_Arts.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1629-08-10"
deathDate: "1700-05-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.18
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.805004
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Agostino_Scilla"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agostino_Scilla"
    title: "Agostino Scilla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agostino_Scilla"
    title: "Agostino Scilla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agostino_Scilla"
    title: "Agostino Scilla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agostino_Scilla"
    title: "Agostino Scilla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%90%E1%83%92%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A2%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%9D_%E1%83%A8%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90"
    title: "აგოსტინო შილა"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austinu_Scilla"
    title: "Austinu Scilla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agostino_Scilla"
    title: "Agostino Scilla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q395714"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump