Tommaso Nardini
Tommaso Nardini (1658 – December 9, 1718) was an Italian priest and painter of the Baroque period, active in his native town.
Biography[]
Born in Ascoli Piceno, Nardini was a pupil of Ludovico Trasi.[1] and upon the latter's death, he worked under Giuseppe Giosafatti.[2] He painted an altarpiece of a Saint interceding with the Virgin and Child for Souls of Purgatory (1710) for the Chiesa della Misericordia in Ancarano, Province of Teramo[3] In collaboration with Agostino Collaceroni, he painted quadratura frescoes in the church of , which was the church of the Olivetani in Ascoli; Nardini adding the figures.[4] Nardini also frescoed much of the ceiling decoration of the Duomo di Sant'Emidio of his hometown. He died in Ascoli Piceno on December 9, 1718.
References[]
- ^ Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 584.
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: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ Descrizione Delle Pitture Sculture Architetture ed altre cose rare Della Insigne Citta delle Ascoli nelle Marca; by Baldassarre Orsini, Stamperia Baduelliana, Perugia, 1790. page 235.
- ^ Restoration of Nardini painting in Ancarano.
- ^ Ticozzi, Stefano (1818). Dizionario dei pittori dal rinnovamento delle belle arti fino al 1800, Volume 1. Milan: Tipografia di Vincenzo Ferrario. p. 128.
- 1658 births
- 1718 deaths
- People from Ascoli Piceno
- 17th-century Italian painters
- Italian male painters
- 18th-century Italian painters
- Italian Baroque painters
- Italian painter, 17th-century birth stubs