Francesco Naselli was an

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painter of the Baroque period.

Biography

He was born at Ferrara, and flourished about the year 1610. When young, he studied the works of the

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and

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, which he copied with surprising success, but afterwards devoted himself to the manner of his countryman Giuseppe Mazzola. He was employed for several of the churches in Ferrara. In the

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there is an altarpiece by him, representing the '' Nativity''; in the church of Santa Maria de' Servi, a large picture of the ''

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''; and in the church of Santa Francesca, the ''Assumption of the Virgin''. Naselli died at Ferrara about 1630. He is said to be the father of Alessandro Naselli, another Ferrarese painter.Il costume antico e moderno, di tutti il popolo
Europe, volume nine, page 237.

References

Attribution: * 1630s deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Ferrara Year of birth unknown {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub