Bernardino Nocchi

Bernardino Nocchi
Self portrait
Born(1741-05-08)8 May 1741
Lucca, Republic of Lucca
Died27 January 1812(1812-01-27) (aged 70)
Rome, First French Empire
NationalityItalian
Known forPainting
MovementNeoclassicism

Bernardino or Giovanni Bernardino Nocchi (May 8, 1741 – January 27, 1812) was an Italian painter, mainly of sacred and historic subjects.

Biography

Early life and education

He was born in Lucca and trained there under Giuseppe Antonio Luchi until 1767. By 1769, Nocchi and his contemporary Stefano Tofanelli had moved to Rome, where they entered the studio of Niccolò Lapiccola.[1]

Career

Giovanni Folo after Bernardino Nocchi, "Diana Woken by Nymphs," 1800–1836, engraving and etching, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC

In 1780, he helped decorate the Apostolic palace and in 1785 the Stanza delle Stampe of the Vatican Library. In 1797, he painted the Transit of St Joseph for the church of San Secondo in Gubbio; in 1804, he completes the Death of St Anne for the Basilica di San Frediano in Spoleto. Returning to Rome, Nocchi painted in 1799 a portrait of Prince Camillo Borghese; in 1803, Glory of Santa Pudenziana (for the church of the same name), San Novato, and San Timoteo. In 1807 he painted a portrait of Pope Pius VII. He also painted The Dancers, Portrait of a Noble Lady and Portrait of the Venerable Marie Clotilde of France, queen of Sardinia (1809). His son, Pietro Nocchi, was also a painter.

Nocchi’s notable portraits include those of Camillo Borghese, 6th Prince of Sulmona (c. 1799; Turin, Galleria Sabauda) and Pius VII ( 1807; Pinacoteca Comunale di Cesena).[2]

  • Alexandrine de Bleschamps come Tersicore, oil on canvas, priv. col.
    Alexandrine de Bleschamps come Tersicore, oil on canvas, priv. col.
  • Il ritorno di Ulisse a Itaca, oil on canvas, Museo Civico di Modena
    Il ritorno di Ulisse a Itaca, oil on canvas, Museo Civico di Modena
  • Deposizione, oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago
    Deposizione, oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago
  • Il pianto di Ulisse, oil on canvas, Museo Civico di Modena
    Il pianto di Ulisse, oil on canvas, Museo Civico di Modena
  • Morte d Sant'Andrea Avellino, Spoleto Cathedral
    Morte d Sant'Andrea Avellino, Spoleto Cathedral
  • Portrait of a Noblewoman, oil on canvas, Collezione Bevilacqua, Cittadella
    Portrait of a Noblewoman, oil on canvas, Collezione Bevilacqua, Cittadella
  • Ritratto della venerabile Maria Clotilde di Borbone, regina di Sardegna, oil on canvas, Cavallini-Sgarbi Col.
    Ritratto della venerabile Maria Clotilde di Borbone, regina di Sardegna, oil on canvas, Cavallini-Sgarbi Col.
  • Ritratto del conte Bernardino Orsetti, oilmon canvas, priv. col.
    Ritratto del conte Bernardino Orsetti, oilmon canvas, priv. col.

References

  1. ^ Le Arti Belle in Toscana, Da Mezzo il Secolo XVIII Ai Di Nostri, Guglielmo Enrico Saltini, Tipografia Le Monnier, Florence, 1862, p45
  2. ^ Sacrum Luce: Arte Sacra nel Territorio Lucchese Archived March 24, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. Entry on Bernardino Nocchi.
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  • Nannini, Alessandra (2013). "NOCCHI, Bernardino". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 78: Natta–Nurra (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-88-12-00032-6.
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