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Nasini, Giuseppe Nicola
(b Castel del Piano, 1657; d Siena, 1736). Italian painter and draughtsman. He was the son of the artist Francesco Nasini (1621–95) and was responsible for the revival of Baroque painting in Siena at the end of the 17th century. Between 1681 and 1688 he attended the Accademia Fiorentina, Rome, sponsored by that institution’s founder, Cosimo III de’ Medici, who commissioned from him the Death of St Peter of Alcántara (1682; Montelupo Fiorentino, convent of the Ambrogiana), a work clearly influenced by Ciro Ferri, director of the Accademia and Nasini’s teacher. In 1685–6 Nasini was in Siena and painted, assisted by his brother Antonio Nasini (1643–1715), the fresco on the Antiporta di Camollia, which he subsequently restored (1699; destr. 1944). A bozzetto survives by Antonio Nasini (Siena, Col. Chigi-Saracini); there is also a drawing (Paris, Louvre) by Giuseppe Nicola Nasini that is probably connected with the work’s restoration. In the autumn of 1686, after a brief stay in Bologna, Nasini went to Venice, where he remained until 1688. He drew inspiration from Venetian 16th-century painting and frescoed a chapel in the church of the Umiltà and a lunette depicting St Peter in Prison in the convent of S Giorgio (both destr.).
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