Francesco Naselli was an

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painter of the

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period.

Biography

He was born at

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, and flourished about the year 1610. When young, he studied the works of the

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and

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, which he copied with surprising success, but afterwards devoted himself to the manner of his countryman

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. He was employed for several of the churches in Ferrara. In the

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there is an altarpiece by him, representing the '' Nativity''; in the church of Santa Maria de' Servi, a large picture of the ''

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''; and in the church of Santa Francesca, the ''Assumption of the Virgin''. Naselli died at Ferrara about 1630. He is said to be the father of

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, another Ferrarese painter.Il costume antico e moderno, di tutti il popolo
Europe, volume nine, page 237.

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1630s deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Ferrara Year of birth unknown {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub