Giuseppe Nogari

They are striking for their emotional content, subdued decoration and coloration, and often display aged individuals in somewhat homely or shabby attire with a dark background.

Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Milan, Turin and Venice. Works named in the authority record are Young Girl. Work by Giuseppe Nogari is recorded in the collections of Museo del Prado, Finnish National Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, Nationalmuseum and Hessen Kassel Heritage.

Nogari was born in Venice. He is said to have trained under Antonio Balestra or, more likely, under Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. He followed the latter' style, as well as those of Rosalba Carriera, Jacopo Amigoni, and Rembrandt. He was patronized by two German patrons in Venice, Sigismund Streit and Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg. From 1739 to 1742 Nogari worked for the House of Savoy in Turin, painting canvasses and decorating the Royal Palace of Turin and the hunting lodge at Stupinigi. In 1756, he became a member of the Venetian Accademia di Pittura e Scultura. Alessandro Longhi was one of his pupils. In 1997, a painting by Nogari was used in a sting wherein employees, including an Old Masters expert of Sotheby's in London, smuggled the painting out of Italy.

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