Giuseppe Natali was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Cremona and Lombardy.
Background
He was born in Casalmaggiore, near Cremona. He was the son of a Giovanni Battista Natali (Bologna, c 1630 - Cremona, c 1700) and grandson of Carlo Natali (il Guardolino), and pupil of Pietro da Cortona in Rome, returned to work in Cremona.
Career
He became a noted painter of quadratura, and received his first training locally with Girolamo Pellizoni Crescini. and was influenced by painters of this genre in Rome and Bologna, including Girolamo Curti, Angelo Michele Colonna, and Agostino Mitelli. Among his works in Cremona, are frescoes for the following sites:
Chapel of Street Catherine in Church of San Domenico
Parish church of Sant"Andrea
Street Andrew Crucified altar church of San Pietro al Po
Presbytery of San Sigismondo
Church of San Domenico at the porta delle Beccarie vecchie
Chapel in Church of San Imerio
Church of San Sigismondo
Church of San Francesco: altarpiece.