'' Santi Severino e Sossio'' in Napoles François de Nomé (1593 – after 1620) was a French painter of the

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period, active mainly in

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Biography

Born in

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in the

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region in 1593, de Nomé had moved to

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by 1602 where he worked in the workshop of the Flemish landscape painter Balthasar Lauwers until around 1610 after which he moved to Naples.

Work

Until the mid-twentieth century, de Nomé's works were believed to be by one "Monsù Desiderio", but the works formerly attributed to Desiderio have since been identified as the work of at least three artists: de Nomé, Didier Barra, who was also from Metz, and a third, as yet unnamed painter. The figures in de Nomé's works were painted by other artists, including Belisario Corenzio and Jacob van Swanenburgh. The themes are bizarre, typically decrepit ruins or near-barren buildings in a nearly-

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, apparently post-apocalyptic

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. People are tiny figures, skies overcast, tonalities earthen, and edges indistinct. His depiction of Venice's Piazza di San Marco is correctly populated by the appropriate structures, but the details are all invented. The style was not highly influential for Italian painters of landscapes (

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) in the next century, with the exception of perhaps Alessandro Magnasco. However, the depictions of nightmarish wilderness amidst the detritus of civilization was a thematic adopted by painters such as

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and Michelangelo Cerquozzi, and reappears in the '' capricci'' (whimsical and fantastic monuments, ruins, or buildings) of Piranesi.

Gallery

Capriccio with

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and Disciples'' File:François de Nomé (c.1593-after 1644) - The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine - 1359 - Southampton City Art Gallery.jpg, ''The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine'' File:François de Nomé - The Circumcision of Christ - 1960.45 - Yale University Art Gallery.jpg, ''The Circumcision of Christ'' File:François de Nomé - Head of Saint John the Baptist Presented to Salome - Walters 37329.jpg, ''Head of Saint

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Presented to

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'', 1620-1624

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nome, Francois 1593 births 17th-century deaths French Baroque painters Italian Baroque painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Naples Artists from Metz Painters from Grand Est