Giuseppe Nicola Nasini (1657–1736)

• Was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
• Born in Castel del Piano, now known as Province of Grosseto.
• Giuseppe was the son of the painter Francesco Nasini.
• He was one of the Tuscan pupils in the Medici-patronized Grand-Ducal Academy for the Arts located in Rome.
• He was also sponsored in Rome by Agostino Chigi.
• From 1679 to 1680, Nasini completed over a dozen portraits of Chigi's family.
• On October 15, 1680, his paintings of the Judgement of Solomon and Elias meets a child and widow was awarded second prize for design in the first class of painting at the Accademia di San Luca contest.
• Nasini returned to Florence by 1685.

• During the reign of Cosimo III de' Medici, Nasini and Giuseppe Tonelli were commissioned to fresco an Allegory of the moral and religious virtues of the Medici for the ceiling of the gallery of the Uffizi that overlooks the river Arno.

• In 1720, he returned to Rome, where he painted in the church of the Santi Apostoli, the Quirinal Palace, and one of the nave paintings in San Giovanni in Laterano.

• Giuseppe's brother, Antonio Nasini and son Apollonio Nasini were also painters.

• He died in Siena, aged 79.

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