Background
Mario Nuzzi was born on January 19, 1603 in Penne, Abruzzi, Italy.
Mario Nuzzi was born on January 19, 1603 in Penne, Abruzzi, Italy.
He was a pupil of the painter Tommaso Salini.
He was among the first Italians specializing in still life painting of flower arrangements. He also painted a celebrated Concert of Birds, an often repeated model which here arranges an encyclopedic diversity of realistically depicted fowl on branches as a chorus around an owl.
Among his pupils were Laura Bernasconi, Domenico Bettini and Florentine Bartolomeo Bimbi. A painting of Nuzzi at work, features a portrait by Giovanni Maria Morandi, he also painted Self Portrait with Flowers in 1640, Metal Decorated Vase with Different Flowers and Roses around 1650 and 1655 which is now on display in Riga, Latvia, Adoration of the Magi in 1654 which now hangs at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia and Mirror of the Three Putti painted in 1660 which is now hangs at the Colonna Gallery, Rome. He joined the Accademia di San Luca in Rome in 1657.
He died on November 14, 1673 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
Adoración de los Magos en una guirnalda de flores
A Flower Piece
Fruit Garland Encircling a Relief
Glowers in a sculpted vase on a stone plinth
Mirror Decorated with Putti, Flowers and Acanthus Scrolls
Natura morta con tralcio di fiori
Natura morta di fiori in un vaso
Spring
Still life with a vase of flowers
The Angel of the Annunciation in a Garland of Flowers
Various flowers in a glass vase with blue grapes, peaches and a lemon, all on a ledge
Vase and Flowers
Quotations: Pascoli defined him as "the first artist in modern times who has outdone the others" in this field of painting.
He married Giovanna Passeri.