Giuseppe Nicola Nasini (January 25, 1657 – July 3, 1736) was an Italian painter of the

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period and active in

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Born in

Castel del Piano Castel del Piano is a town and ''comune'' (municipality) of Province of Grosseto in the Tuscany, central Italy. History The area of Castel del Piano is known to have been inhabited in prehistoric times, but the town itself is mentioned for th ...

, now known as

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, Giuseppe was the son of the painter Francesco Nasini and was one of the Tuscan pupils in the Medici-patronized Grand-Ducal Academy for the Arts located in Rome and directed by

Ciro Ferri Ciro Ferri (1634 – 13 September 1689) was an Italian Baroque sculptor and painter, the chief pupil and successor of Pietro da Cortona. Biography He was born in Rome, where he began working under Cortona and with a team of artists in the extens ...

from 1673 to 1986. He was also sponsored in Rome by Agostino Chigi. From 1679 to 1680, Nasini completed over a dozen portraits of Chigi's family; some are copies of paintings by

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and

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. On October 15, 1680, his paintings of the ''Judgement of Solomon'' and ''Elias meets a child and widow'' was awarded second prize for design in the first class of painting at the Accademia di San Luca contest. In July 1681, he completed a ''St Peter of Alcantara'' for the church in the Villa Medicea L'Ambrogiana, near Montelupo Fiorentino Nasini returned to

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by 1685. During the reign of

Cosimo III de' Medici Cosimo III de' Medici (14 August 1642 – 31 October 1723) was Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1670 until his death in 1723, the sixth and penultimate from the House of Medici. He reigned from 1670 to 1723, and was the elder s ...

, Nasini and Giuseppe Tonelli were commissioned to fresco an ''Allegory of the moral and religious virtues of the Medici'' for the ceiling of the gallery of the

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that overlooks the river Arno. In 1691, he completed frescoes for the Compagnia di San Luca (painter's guild) in the church of

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in Florence, and two ceilings in the

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depicting ''Jove unleashes thunderbolts'' and ''Hercules and Giants''. He also frescoes for the Landi Chapel in the church of the Carmine. He painted a fresco of the ''Allegory of Reason'' (1694) for the palazzo Tolomei-Biffi in Florence.Encyclopedia Treccani. In 1720, he returned to Rome, where he painted in the church of the Santi Apostoli, the

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, and one of the nave paintings in

San Giovanni in Laterano The Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran (officially the ''Major Papal, Patriarchal and Roman Archbasilica, Metropolitan and Primatial Cathedral of the Most Holy Savior and Saints John the Baptist and the Evangelist in Lateran, Mother and Head of A ...

. In

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, he painted a ''San Leonardo'' for the church of the Madonna del Pianto. For the Chapel of the Madonna inside the church of

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, along with his son Apollonio, he painted a series of paintings consisting of large canvases portraying scenes from the

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, including the ''Birth of the Virgin'', the ''Presentation in the Temple'', and the ''Flight into Egypt'', as well as frescoes depicting the ''Coronation of the Virgin'' and the ''Virgin crowned by the Trinity with angels upholding instruments of the Passion''. Giuseppe's brother,

Antonio Nasini Francesco Nasini (Piancastagnaio, either 1611 or 1621– Castel del Piano, 1695) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in towns outside of Siena, Italy. Francesco was the progenitor of a pedigree of painters. He had a brothe ...

and son Apollonio Nasini were also painters. Appollonio and his father helped fresco the ceiling of the small oratory of

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. He died in

, aged 79.

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