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 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 on December 9, 1718.

References

  1. ↑ Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z . London: 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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