Mario Nuzzi
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Mario Nuzzi (1603-1673) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome. He was a pupil of the painter Tommaso Salini. He was among the first Italians specializing in still life painting of flower arrangements. He also painted a celebrated Concert of Birds, an often repeated model which here arranges an encyclopedic diversity of realistically-depicted fowl on branches as a chorus around an owl.
Among his pupils are Laura Bernasconi and Domenico Bettini. A painting of Nuzzi at work, features a portrait by Giovanni Maria Morandi[1]. He joined the Accademia di San Luca in Rome in 1657[2].
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- Farquhar, Maria (1855). in Ralph Nicholson Wornum: Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006, page 113.
- Gallery of Art
- ^ Morte Barocca a Roma
- ^ Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins page 356
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