Francesco Nagar (May 5, 1861 - ?) was an Italian painter and ceramist, who gravitated towards painting

maiolica Maiolica is tin-glazed pottery decorated in colours on a white background. The most renowned Italian maiolica is from the Renaissance period. These works were known as ''istoriato'' wares ("painted with stories") when depicting historical and ...

ceramics. Nagar was born in

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. He studied in the Royal Museo Artistico Industriale of Naples, with his teachers,

Domenico Morelli Domenico Morelli (4 August 182313 August 1901) was an Italians, Italian painter, who mainly produced historical and religious works. Morelli was immensely influential in the arts of the second half of the 19th century, both as director of the Ac ...

, Ignazio Pericci, and

Filippo Palizzi Filippo Palizzi (16 June 1818, Vasto – 11 September 1899, Naples) was an Italian painter, known for his rural genre scenes with animals, mostly goats. His brothers, Francesco Paolo, Giuseppe and Nicola, also became painters. Biography He was ...

. He exhibited work at the Mostre della Promotrice Salvator Rosa of Naples from 1877 to 1897. His first submissions were canvas paintings, mainly of interior or exterior

vedute A ''veduta'' (; : ''vedute'') is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista. The painters of ''vedute'' are referred to as ''vedutisti''. Origins This genre of landscape originated ...

of Naples. For example, a ''View of the choir of the church of San Severino'' exhibited in 1879 in Naples, and in 1880 at Turin. In 1877, he exhibited in Naples: ''Ritorno da Piedigrotta'', ''Il pasto ai polli'' and a ''Landscape''. In 1883 at Naples, he exhibited ''Passa tempo viziozo'', ''Il pasto frugale'', and ''il pescatore''; and in 1884, ''Sacro e profano''. By 1888, he was exhibiting paintings on maiolica. In 1888 at Naples, he displayed in maiolica: ''Arabi'' and ''Salve Regina'' (Copy of a Morelli painting). In 1888 he exhibited the ceramic ''The Triumph of Science'' (copy of a painting of

Giuseppe Sciuti Giuseppe Sciuti (Zafferana Etnea, Sicily, 26 February 1834 – Rome, 13 March 1911) was an Italian painter. Biography His father, a pharmacist, insisted his son follow his trade. But he relented and allowed Giuseppe to study locally at age 15, a ...

). He worked for the Ceramica del Museo Artistico Industriale. He completed a tile floor with an apparently random design of spilt rose petals on a grid. Designed by Filippo Palizzi for the

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villa of Russian princess Cortchakroff. Museo Artistico Industriale
website on maiolica rose petal pattern.

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19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 1861 births Painters from Naples Italian potters Year of death missing 19th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub