Niccolò Codazzi (1642 – 1693)

• Was an Italian painter of architectural paintings, capricci and vedute.
• Viviano Codazzi was born in Genoa as the first born son of Viviano Codazzi and Candida Miranda.
• His was a prominent architectural painter.
• Rome following the anti-Spanish revolt of Masaniello in 1647.
• Niccolò Codazzi studied along with Vicente Giner under his father Viviano Codazzi.

• He was in Rome from 1675 and lived near the church of San Macuto.

• He was one of the artists who worked on the decoration of the piano nobile of the Palazzo Altieri. 

• Niccolò Codazzi moved to France.

• He was first in Aix-en-Provence where he collaborated with Nicolas Pinson.

• He later moved to Paris where he lived around 1681 and 1682.

• During his French sojourn, he received a commission by king Louis XIV of France to paint landscapes with architecture for the Grand appartement de la reine at Versailles.

• He returned to Italy. 

• In 1684 he rented a house in Zerbino near Genoa.

• In Genoa he worked alongside painters such as Gregorio de Ferrari and the Piola brothers.

• At the time of his death, he was living in Genoa.

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