Tommaso Nardini

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Tommaso Nardini (1658 – December 9, 1718) was an Italian priest and painter of the Baroque period, active in his native town.

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Biography

Born in Ascoli Piceno, he was a pupil there 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 Sant'Angelo Magno, 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.

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References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Restoration of Nardini painting in Ancarano.
  4. ↑ Ticozzi, Stefano (1818). Dizionario dei pittori dal rinnovamento delle belle arti fino al 1800, Volume 1. Milan: Tipografia di Vincenzo Ferrario. p. 128.



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