Francesco Naselli

Francesco Naselli was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.

Biography

He was born at Ferrara, and flourished about the year 1610. When young, he studied the works of the Carracci and Guercino, which he copied with surprising success, but afterwards devoted himself to the manner of his countryman Giuseppe Mazzola. He was employed for several of the churches in Ferrara. In the Cathedral there is an altarpiece by him, representing the Nativity; in the church of Santa Maria de' Servi, a large picture of the Last Supper; 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 Alessandro Naselli, another Ferrarese painter.[1][2]

References

This article incorporates text from the article "NASELLI, Francesco" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

  1. ↑ Dizionario storico degli uomini illustri ferraresi, by Luigi Ughi, page 85.
  2. ↑ Il costume antico e moderno, di tutti il popolo, Europe, volume nine, page 237.


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