Giuseppe Nicola Nasini

Giuseppe Nicola Nasini (January 25, 1657[1] – July 3, 1736) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period and active in Rome and Tuscany.

Born in Castel del Piano, now known as Province of Grosseto, Giuseppe was the son of the painter Francesco Nasini and was one of the Tuscan pupils in the Medici-patronized Grand-Ducal Academy for the Arts located in Rome and directed by Ciro Ferri from 1673 to 1986.

From 1679 to 1680, Nasini completed over a dozen portraits of Chigi's family;[3] some are copies of paintings by Jacob Ferdinand Voet and Alessandro Mattia da Farnese.

In July 1681, he completed a St Peter of Alcantara for the church in the Villa Medicea L'Ambrogiana, near Montelupo Fiorentino[5][6] Nasini returned to Florence by 1685.

In 1691, he completed frescoes for the Compagnia di San Luca (painter's guild) in the church of Carmine in Florence, and two ceilings in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi depicting Jove unleashes thunderbolts and Hercules and Giants.