Francesco Nenci

Assunzione della Vergine (1823), Florence

Francesco Nenci (born April 10, 1781 in Anghiari , † March 4, 1850 in Siena ) was an Italian painter .

Life

His parents were Sigismondo Nenci and Maria Matassi, they worked as merchants. He received his training first from 1795 in Città di Castello with Tommaso Conca , then from 1797 in the Accademia di belle arti in Florence . Among other things, Pietro Benvenuti was his teacher here. From 1812 to 1813 he stayed in Rome. From 1816 he was a member of the Accademia di San Luca there . In 1827 he became director of the Accademia in Siena.

Works (selection)

• Asciano , Museo Cassioli: Pittura senese dell'Ottocento, room 1: Sacra famiglia
• Florence, Accademia delle Arti del Disegno : Edipo sciolto dai lacci da un pastore , created in 1817.
• Florence, Palazzo Pitti : frescoes in the Sala di Ulisse (1833).
• Florence, Villa Medici Poggio Imperiale , Cappella della Santissima Annunziata: Assunzione della Vergine (1823)
• Siena, Palazzo Salimbeni , Sala del Palio: Passeggiata storica del Palio del 18 agosto 1833 , (also Il corteo storico delle contrade nel Campo di Siena in occasione del Palio corso per la venuta di Ferdinando III granduca di Toscana il 18 e il 19 agosto 1818 ), Created in 1849, 90 × 137 cm, oil on canvas.

literature

• Francesco Nenci . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 388 .
• Marco Pierini:  NENCI, Francesco. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 78:  Natta – Nurra. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2013.
• Bruno Santi: Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena. La collezione d'arte. Scala, Florence 1999, p. 69.
• Piero Torriti: Tutta Siena. Contrada per Contrada. Edizioni Bonechi, Florence 2004, ISBN 88-7204-456-1 .

Web links

Commons : Francesco Nenci  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Nènci, Francesco in Enciclopedie on line at treccani.it

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Marco Pierini: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani.
2. ↑ Francesca Petrucci: Musei Senesi. Nuova Immagine Editrice, Siena 2007, ISBN 978-88-7145-255-5 , p. 166.
3. ↑ Official website of the Monte dei Paschi ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on February 23, 2015 (in Italian, with dates and details of the painting).