Niccolò Lapiccola, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetNiccolò Lapiccola
Italian painter
Date of Birth: 07-Feb-1727
Place of Birth: Crotone, Calabria, Italy
Date of Death: 03-Feb-1790
Profession: artist, painter
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Niccolò Lapiccola
- Niccolò Lapiccola (7 February 1727 – 3 February 1790) was an Italian painter.
- He was born in Crotone and took lessons at Rome from Francesco Mancini.
- He supplied the designs for the mosaics for one of the chapels of St.
- Peter's Basilica.
- One of his pupils is the engraver Stefano Tofanelli and Bernardino Nocchi.
- He later became an academician in 1766 and later honorary member of Accademia di San Luca.
- He died in Rome. His other paintings included Life of Psyche, Stigmata of St.
- Francis (San Lorenzo in Panisperna) and decoration of the golden hall with mythological scenes at Palazzo Chigi, Rome.
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