Nicola Antonio Monti (16 August 1736 - 19 December 1795) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassical style.

Biography

Born in

Ascoli Piceno Ascoli Piceno (; la, Asculum; dialetto ascolano: Ascule) is a town and ''comune'' in the Marche region of Italy, capital of the province of the same name. Its population is around 46,000 but the urban area of the city has more than 93,000. Geo ...

, he first trained locally under

Biagio Miniera Biagio Miniera (1697 - August 28, 1755) was an Italian painter, active in a Rococo style. Biography Miniera was born in Ascoli Piceno. He first trained locally under Carlo Palucci, then traveled to Rome to study under Pietro Subleyras and in t ...

, then traveled to Rome to study under

Pompeo Batoni Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (25 January 1708 – 4 February 1787) was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous allegorical and mythological pictures. The high number of foreign visitors tra ...

. He was active in Ascoli,

Perugia Perugia (, , ; lat, Perusia) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber, and of the province of Perugia. The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and part o ...

, Rome, and

Fermo Fermo (ancient: Firmum Picenum) is a town and ''comune'' of the Marche, Italy, in the Province of Fermo. Fermo is on a hill, the Sabulo, elevation , on a branch from Porto San Giorgio on the Adriatic coast railway. History The oldest hum ...

. He painted for the Church of Santa Maria in Monterone, Rome. The Cathedral of Ascoli Piceno has a painting depicting the ''Miracle of Bread and Fishes'' (1782). He painted a ''St Anne, Virgin, and young St John the Baptist'' (1769) for the church of San Domenico in Ascoli. He died in poverty.Memorie intorno i letterati e gli artisti della città di Ascoli nel Picino
by Giacinto Cantalamessa Carboni, (183), page 268-271.

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1736 births 1795 deaths People from the Province of Ascoli Piceno 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Rococo painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub