Giuseppe Natali
Giuseppe Natali (1652–1722) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Cremona and Lombardy.
Biography[]
He was born in Casalmaggiore, near Cremona. He was the son of a Giovanni Battista Natali (Bologna, c 1630 - Cremona, c 1700) and grandson of Carlo Natali (il Guardolino), and pupil of Pietro da Cortona in Rome, returned to work in Cremona.[1]
He became a noted painter of quadratura, and received his first training locally with Girolamo Pellizoni Crescini.[2] and was influenced by painters of this genre in Rome and Bologna, including Girolamo Curti, Angelo Michele Colonna, and Agostino Mitelli. His brothers , Lorenzo, and were assistants in his studio. He had a son and nephew, named Giovanni Battista Natali, both painters.
Among his works in Cremona, are frescoes for the following sites:[3]
- Chapel of St Catherine in Church of San Domenico
- Parish church of
- St Andrew Crucified altar church of San Pietro al Po
- Presbytery of San Sigismondo
- Church of San Domenico at the porta delle Beccarie vecchie
- Chapel in Church of San Imerio
- Church of San Sigismondo
- Church of San Francesco: altarpiece
References[]
- Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.). Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006. p. 111.
- ^ La pittura cremonese, by Principe Bartolommeo de Soresina Vidoni, page 137-137.
- ^ Memorie degli uomini illustri di Casalmaggiore, Volume 9, by Abate Giovanni Romani, (1830) page 493.
- ^ Memorie degli uomini illustri di Casalmaggiore, Volume 9, 1830, page 492-498.
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