Niccolò Lapiccola (7 February 1727 – 3 February 1790) was an Italian painter. He was born in

Crotone Crotone (, ; nap, label= Crotonese, Cutrone or ) is a city and ''comune'' in Calabria, Italy. Founded as the Achaean colony of Kroton ( grc, Κρότων or ; la, Crotona) in Magna Graecia, it was known as Cotrone from the Middle Ages until ...

and took lessons at Rome from Francesco Mancini. He supplied the designs for the mosaics for one of the chapels of St. Peter's Basilica. One of his pupils is the engraver Stefano Tofanelli and

Bernardino Nocchi ] 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 and trained there under Giuseppe Antonio Luchi until 1767. By 1769, Nocch ...

. He later became an academician in 1766 and later honorary member of

Accademia di San Luca The Accademia di San Luca (the "Academy of Saint Luke") is an Italian academy of artists in Rome. The establishment of the Accademia de i Pittori e Scultori di Roma was approved by papal brief in 1577, and in 1593 Federico Zuccari became its fir ...

. He died in

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. His other paintings included ''Life of Psyche'', ''Stigmata of St. Francis'' (

San Lorenzo in Panisperna The church of San Lorenzo in Panisperna is a Roman Catholic church on Via Panisperna, Rome, central Italy. It was previously known as "San Lorenzo in Formoso". It was erected on the site of its dedicatee's martyrdom. It is one of several church ...

) and decoration of the golden hall with mythological scenes at Palazzo Chigi, Rome.

References

*Schearjashub Spooner ''A Biographical History of the Fine Arts'' (1865), Shearjashub, p. 456 *

External links

Nicolo Lapiccola at Artnet
18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters People from Crotone 1730 births 1790 deaths 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub