Giuseppe Nicola Nasini (January 25, 1657– July 3, 1736) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Rome and Tuscany.

Biography

Born in Castel del Piano, now in the

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, Giuseppe was the son of the painter Francesco Nasini and was one of the Tuscan pupils in the Medici-patronized Grand-Ducal Academy for the Arts located in Rome and directed from 1673–86, by Ciro Ferri. He was also sponsored in Rome by Agostino Chigi. From 1679 to 1680, Nasini completed over a dozen portraits of Chigi's family; some are copies of paintings by

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and Alessandro Mattia da Farnese. On October 15, 1680, his paintings of the ''Judgement of Solomon'' and ''Elias meets a child and widow'' was awarded second prize for design in the first class of painting at the Accademia di San Luca contest. In July 1681, he completed a ''St Peter of Alcantara'' for the church in the Villa Medicea L'Ambrogiana, near Montelupo Fiorentino Nasini returned to

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by 1685. During the reign of

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, Nasini and Giuseppe Tonelli were commissioned to fresco an ''Allegory of the moral and religious virtues of the Medici'' for the ceiling of the gallery of the

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that overlooks the river Arno. In 1691, he completed frescoes for the Compagnia di San Luca (painter's guild) in the church of Carmine in Florence, and two ceilings in the

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depicting ''Jove unleashes thunderbolts'' and ''Hercules and Giants''. He also frescoes for the Landi Chapel in the church of the Carmine. He painted a fresco of the ''Allegory of Reason'' (1694) for the palazzo Tolomei-Biffi in Florence.Encyclopedia Treccani. In 1720, he returned to Rome, where he painted in the church of the Santi Apostoli, the

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, and one of the nave paintings in

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. In Foligno, he painted a ''San Leonardo'' for the church of the Madonna del Pianto. For the Chapel of the Madonna inside the church of

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, he painted, along with his son Apollonio, a series of paintings consisting of large canvases portraying scenes from the life of the Virgin, including: the ''Birth of the Virgin'', the ''Presentation in the Temple'', and the ''Flight into Egypt'', as well as frescoes depicting the ''Coronation of the Virgin'' and the ''Virgin crowned by the Trinity with angels upholding instruments of the Passion''. Giuseppe's brother,

Antonio Nasini Francesco Nasini (Piancastagnaio, either 1611 or 1621– Castel del Piano, 1695) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in towns outside of Siena, Italy. Francesco was the progenitor of a pedigree of painters. He had a broth ...

and son Apollonio Nasini were also painters. Appollonio and his father helped fresco the ceiling of the small oratory of

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. He died in

, aged 79.

References

* *’’Some Works by Florentine Cortoneschi: Gabbiani and Nasini’’, Bruce Davis. Burlington Magazine (1983) pages 685-6+688-9+693.
Santa Maria della Scala site.

External links

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