Andrea Tron Nazario Nazari 1750 National Gallery

Nazario Nazari (1724 – after 1793) was an Italian painter, active in a late-

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

or Rococo style, in and around

Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...

. Nazario was well known as a portraitist of aristocratic officials of the Republic of Venice.

Early life

He was born in Clusone, the son and pupil of the painter

Bartolomeo Nazari Bartolomeo Nazari (May 31, 1693 – August 24, 1758) was an Italian painter of the late- Baroque, mainly active in Venice as a portraitist. Biography Born in Clusone, near Bergamo. By 1716, he had become an apprentice under Angelo Trevisani, bu ...

; his sister Maria was also active as a painter. He was active in

Bergamo Bergamo (; lmo, Bèrghem ; from the proto- Germanic elements *''berg +*heim'', the "mountain home") is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como ...

from 1750–1755. He was then sent to

, because his father wished to separate him from bad company. Among his portraits, were those of Elena Bresciani, Antonio Roncalli, Countess Maria Olimpia Coleoni, and in 1755 Signor Bartolomeo Vitalba. In 1755, traveled to Genoa with his father.F.M. Tassi, page 96

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1724 births 1790s deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian neoclassical painters Painters from Bergamo Painters from Venice People from Clusone 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub