Giuseppe Nogari

Giuseppe Nogari (* 1699 in Venice, † June 3, 1766 ) was a Venetian painter of the Rococo period, known primarily as a portrait painter.

Life

Nogari was a pupil of Antonio Balestra. He was by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Rosalba Carriera, Jacopo Amigoni and Rembrandt ( whose drawings he knew from the collection of Zaccaria Sagredo and other collections ) influences. In Venice he painted especially for the German artist cartridge Sigismund Streit (1687-1775, of which some are allegories in the Berlin Gemäldegalerie ) and Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg (from the 1730s ). 1739 to 1742 he was in the painting of the Royal Palace ( Palazzo Reale) in Turin and the hunting lodge Stupinigi involved. After returning to Venice in 1743 he worked for Francesco Algarotti, King August III. (Portraits, among others, philosophers now in the Dresden Gemäldegalerie ) and the British Consul Joseph Smith (now in the Royal Collection at Hampton Court and Edinburgh). More paintings are in the Kassel Art Gallery. He also painted for churches in Venice ( cathedral at Bassano, Frari ).

In 1726 he became a member of the Venetian painters' guild and 1756 the Venetian Academy of Arts. Among his students Alessandro Longhi and Johann Gottlieb Prestel.

His portraits often show older people from a poor background against a dark background.

Gallery

The Apostle Peter, 1743