Guido Nincheri
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Guido Nincheri (1885 – 1 March 1973) was a Canadian artist working mainly in stained glass and fresco. Born in Prato, Italy, he studied art in Florence and immigrated to Montreal in 1915 after a short stay in Boston where he decorated the Opera House.
Nincheri designed the interior decoration of many Catholic churches across Canada and New England, including Saint-Viateur d'Outremont and St-Léon-de-Westmount (a Canadian cultural heritage site). He not only executed frescoes and stained glass, but also designed a number of churches, including St. Anthony of Padua in Ottawa and the Church of the Madonna della Difesa in Montreal, which is famous for its fresco depicting Benito Mussolini on horseback among a group of the faithful. In the United States many of his works are found in the Franco-American Catholic Churches of the Providence Diocese in Rhode Island. Three of his largest works are in the [Church of Christ the King], West Warwick, RI. His secular work includes the Roger Williams Park Natural History Museum in Providence, Rhode Island and the Chateau Dufresne in Montreal.
In addition to the churches mentioned above, his frescoes can be seen in St Ann's Church in Woonsocket, Rhode Island; Ste. Amélie in Baie-Comeau, Quebec; St. Theresa of the Child Jesus in Ottawa; St. Michael's and St. Anthony's in Montreal; the Chapel of the Saints-Noms-de-Jésus-et-de-Marie Mother House in Montreal.
Nincheri executed an estimated 2000 stained glass windows in about 100 different churches in Quebec, Ontario, the Maritimes, British Columbia and New England. One of his stained glass windows from Vancouver's Holy Rosary Cathedral was featured on a Canadian Christmas 45-cent postage stamp in 1997.
