Mario Nuzzi

Selfportrait with flowers, 1640

Mario Nuzzi, or Mario di Fiori (1603–1673) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome. 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 are Laura Bernasconi and Domenico Bettini. A painting of Nuzzi at work, features a portrait by Giovanni Maria Morandi^[1]. He joined the Accademia di San Luca in Rome in 1657^[2].

References

• Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum. ed. Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006. pp. page 113. http://books.google.com/books?q=intitle:Wornum+intitle:principal+intitle:painters. 
• Web Gallery of Art

1. ^ Natura Morte Barocca a Roma
2. ^ Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins page 356

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Name	Nuzzi, Mario
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Date of birth	1603
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Date of death	1673
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