Niccolò Lapiccola (7 February 1727 – 3 February 1790) was an Italian painter. He was born in
Crotone
Crotone (; ; or ) is a city and ''comune'' in Calabria, Italy.
Founded as the Achaean colony of Kroton ( or ; ), it became a great Greek city, home of the renowned mathematician-philosopher Pythagoras amongst other famous citizens, and one ...
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. He later became an academician in 1766 and later honorary member of
Accademia di San Luca
The Accademia di San Luca () 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 first ''principe'' or director; ...
. He died in
Rome
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.
His other paintings included ''Life of Psyche'', ''Stigmata of St. Francis'' (
San Lorenzo in Panisperna) 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
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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
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