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Giuseppe Nicola Nasini (January 25, 1657〔(Della vita e delle opere del cav. Giuseppe Nasini: pittore del secolo XVII ). By Giuseppe Nasini, 1872, Tipografia Bruzzi, Prato. page 8.〕– July 3, 1736) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Rome and Tuscany. ==Biography== Born in Castel del Piano, now in the Province of Grosseto, Giuseppe was the son of the painter Francesco Nasini and was one of the Tuscan pupils in the Medici-patronized Grand-Ducal Academy for the Arts located in Rome and directed from 1673–86, by Ciro Ferri.〔G. Nasini, page 9.〕 He was also sponsored in Rome by Agostino Chigi. From 1679 to 1680, Nasini completed over a dozen portraits of Chigi's family;〔Now found in the Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia.〕 some are copies of paintings by Jacob Ferdinand Voet and Alessandro Mattia da Farnese. On October 15 of 1680, his paintings of the ''Judgement of Solomon'' and ''Elias meets a child and widow'' 〔Now at Accademia di San Luca.〕 was awarded second prize for design in first class of painting at the Accademia di San Luca contest. In July of 1681, he completed a ''St Peter of Alcantara'' for the church in the Medici Villa of Ambrogina, near Montelupo Fiorentino〔Now painting is in the church of Santi Quirico e Lucia, Montelupo.〕〔(Treccani encylopedia entry ) on Giuseppe Nicola Nasini, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 77 (2012) di Annalisa Pezzo.〕 Nasini returned to Florence by 1685. During the reign of Cosimo III de' Medici, Nasini and Giuseppe Tonelli were commissioned to fresco an ''Allegory of the moral and religious virtues of the Medici'' for ceiling of the gallery of the Uffizi that overlooks the river Arno. In 1691, he completed frescoes for the Compagnia di San Luca (painter's guild) in the church of the Carmine, and two ceilings in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi depicting ''Jove unleashes thunderbolts'' and ''Hercules and Giants''. He also frescoes for the Landi Chapel in the church of the Carmine.〔Only traces remain of the frescoes in the Landi Chapel〕 He painted a fresco of the ''Allegory of Reason''(1694) for the palazzo Tolomei-Biffi.〔Encyclopedia Treccani.〕 In 1720, he returned to Rome, where he painted in the church of the Santi Apostoli, the Quirinal Palace, and one of the nave paintings in San Giovanni in Laterano. In Foligno, he painted a ''San Leonardo'' for the church of the Madonna del Pianto. For the Chapel of the Madonna inside the church of Santa Maria della Scala of Siena, he painted, along with his son Apollonio, a series of paintings consisting of large canvases portraying scenes from the life of the Virgin, including:''Birth of the Virgin'', ''Presentation in the Temple'', and ''Flight into Egypt'', as well as frescoes depicting the ''Coronation of the Virgin'' and the ''Virgin crowned by the Trinity with angels upholding instruments of the Passion''. Giuseppe's brother, Antonio Nasini and son Apollonio Nasini were also painters. He died in Siena, aged 79. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Giuseppe Nicola Nasini」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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