Girolamo Nanni

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Girolamo Nanni was a 17th-century Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome. According to Baldinucci's Notizie, he was called Girolamo Nanni Romano, also called il Poco e Buono (few and good). He is known to have frescoed in the chapel of the church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme [1] and in the chapel of the Assumption of the Virgin in Santa Caterina dei Funari. [2] He painted in the chapel of the Sancta Sanctorum (Chapel of St. Lawrence) in the Lateran Palace.

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