Bartolomeo Nazari (1693 - 1758)

Bartolomeo Nazari

Bartolomeo Nazari was an Italian painter and printmaker of the academic Venetian Baroque school. He studied painting with Angelo Trevisani and later became assistant to Francesco Trevisani and Benedetto Luti.

Bartolomeo Nadzari was a famous portrait painter of his time. He produced numerous pictorial works depicting prominent figures, among them Canaletto, Francesco Correra, Cardinal Vincenzo Querini, the procurators Alvise Mocenigo, Nicolo Veniera, Zaccaria Canal and Lorenzo Morosini. Particularly famous is the life-size equestrian portrait of Marshal Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg. In 1744 Nadzari was in Frankfurt where he painted a portrait of Emperor Charles VII.