Giuseppe Natali (1652–1722) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Cremona and Lombardy.

Biography

He was born in

Casalmaggiore Casalmaggiore ( Casalasco-Viadanese: ) is a ''comune'' in the province of Cremona, Lombardy, Italy, located across the Po River. It was the birthplace of Italian composers Ignazio Donati and Andrea Zani. It became worldwide famous thanks to its ...

, near Cremona. He was the son of a Giovanni Battista Natali (

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, c 1630 - Cremona, c 1700) and grandson of Carlo Natali (''il Guardolino''), and pupil of Pietro da Cortona in Rome, returned to work in Cremona. He became a noted painter of

quadratura Illusionistic ceiling painting, which includes the techniques of perspective ''di sotto in sù'' and ''quadratura'', is the tradition in Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art in which ''trompe-l'œil'', perspective tools such as foreshortening, an ...

, and received his first training locally with Girolamo Pellizoni Crescini. and was influenced by painters of this genre in

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and

, including

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, and

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. His brothers

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, Lorenzo, and Pietro were assistants in his studio. He had a son and nephew, named Giovanni Battista Natali, both painters. Among his works in Cremona, are frescoes for the following sites: Memorie degli uomini illustri di Casalmaggiore
Volume 9, 1830, page 492-498. *Chapel of St Catherine in Church of San Domenico *Parish church of

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*St Andrew Crucified altar church of San Pietro al Po *Presbytery of San Sigismondo *Church of San Domenico at the porta delle Beccarie vecchie *Chapel in Church of San Imerio *Church of San Sigismondo *Church of San Francesco: altarpiece

References

* 1652 births 1722 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Italian Renaissance painters Quadratura painters Painters from Lombardy Painters from Cremona 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub