Nicola Mónti or Niccola Monti (August 28, 1780 - 1863) was an Italian painter, active in a neoclassical style, painting mainly historical subjects.

Biography

Monti was born in

Pistoia Pistoia (, is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of a province of the same name, located about west and north of Florence and is crossed by the Ombrone Pistoiese, a tributary of the River Arno. It is a typi ...

, where his initial training was with Jean-Baptiste Frederic Desmarais. He moved to Florence where he worked for

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, and also attended the Academy of Fine Arts in

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. For the church of the Umilta in Pistoia, he painted a fresco depicting ''Cain cursed by God'' and ''San Felice exorcises an witch''. He also worked in Poland and St Petersburg, Russia in 1818–1819. He returned to Florence to fresco a hall in the Palazzo Pitti. For the basilica of the Santissima Annunziata, he frescoed a ''Resurrection of Lazarus''. He painted a historical canvas depicting ''Michelangelo suspends work of the Sculpture of Moses'', now in private collections. He published an autobiography titled ''Memorie Inutile'' (1860).Dizionario Di Opere Anonime E Pseudonime in Supplemento
page 206. He died in

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. There is a painter Nicola Antonio Monti from Ascoli Piceno (August 16, 1736 - December 19, 1795) and an opera singer Nicola Monti.

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1778 births 1863 deaths Painters from Tuscany 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 19th-century Italian painters Italian neoclassical painters People from Pistoia Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze alumni 19th-century Italian male artists 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub