] Bernardino or Giovanni Bernardino Nocchi (May 8, 1741 – January 27, 1812) was an Italian painter, mainly of sacred and historic subjects.

Biography

He was born in

Lucca Lucca ( , ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea. The city has a population of about 89,000, while its province has a population of 383,957. Lucca is known as one ...

and trained there under Giuseppe Antonio Luchi until 1767. By 1769, Nocchi and his contemporary

Stefano Tofanelli Stefano Tofanelli (September 26, 1752 - November 30, 1812) was an Italian painter during the Neoclassic period. Life He was born in Nave, near Lucca, and as a young boy of ten he was apprenticed with the painter Giuseppe Antonio Luchi, also call ...

had moved to

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, where they entered the studio of Niccolò Lapiccola. In 1780, he helped decorate the Apostolic palace and in 1785 the ''Stanza delle Stampe'' of the

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. In 1797, he painted the ''Transit of St Joseph'' for the church of San Secondo in

Gubbio Gubbio () is an Italian town and ''comune'' in the far northeastern part of the Italian province of Perugia (Umbria). It is located on the lowest slope of Mt. Ingino, a small mountain of the Apennines. History The city's origins are very ancient. ...

; in 1804, he completes the ''Death of St Anne'' for the

Basilica di San Frediano The Basilica of San Frediano is a Romanesque church in Lucca, Italy, situated on the ''Piazza San Frediano''. History Fridianus (Frediano) was an Irish bishop of Lucca in the first half of the 6th century. He had a church built on this spo ...

Spoleto Spoleto (, also , , ; la, Spoletum) is an ancient city in the Italian province of Perugia in east-central Umbria on a foothill of the Apennines. It is S. of Trevi, N. of Terni, SE of Perugia; SE of Florence; and N of Rome. History Spolet ...

. Returning to Rome, Nocchi painted in 1799 a portrait of '' Prince Camillo Borghese''; in 1803, ''Glory of

Santa Pudenziana Santa Pudenziana is a church of Rome, a basilica built in the 4th century and dedicated to Saint Pudentiana, sister of Praxedes and daughter of Pudens (mentioned by Paul the Apostle in ''2 Timothy'', 4: 21). It is one of the national churches in ...

'' (for the church of the same name), ''San Novato'', and ''San Timoteo''. In 1807 he painted a portrait of '' Pope Pius VII''. He also painted ''The Dancers'', ''Portrait of a Noble Lady'' and ''Portrait of the Venerable Marie

Clotilde of France Marie Clotilde of France (Marie Adélaïde Clotilde Xavière; 23 September 1759 – 7 March 1802), known as Clotilde in Italy, was Queen of Sardinia by marriage to Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia. She was the younger sister of Louis XVI of Fr ...

, queen of Sardinia'' (1809). His son, Pietro Nocchi, was also a painter. Sacrum Luce: Arte Sacra nel Territorio Lucchese
. Entry on Bernardino Nocchi. Nocchi died in 1812 in Rome.

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1741 births 1812 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 19th-century Italian painters Painters from Lucca Italian Baroque painters 19th-century Italian male artists 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub