Bernardino Nocchi [SEP] occupation
Bernardino Nocchi
Bernardino or Giovanni Bernardino Nocchi (Lucca, May 8, 1741 - Rome, January 27, 1812) was an Italian painter, mainly of sacred and historic subjects.
Biography.
He trained under Giuseppe Antonio Luchi in Lucca until 1767. By 1769, Nocchi and his contemporary Stefano Tofanelli had moved to Rome, where they entered the studio of Niccolò Lapiccola.
In 1780, he helped decorate the Apostolic palace and in 1785 the "Stanza delle Stampe" of the Vatican Library. In 1797,
Pietro Gagliardi.
The right side of the present basilica was part of a Roman bath house dating from the reign of emperor Hadrian (117–138).
Inside.
On the wall behind the high altar are three paintings made in 1803 by Bernardino Nocchi representing (from left to right): "St. Timotheus", "The Glory of St Pudentiana", and "St Novatus".
The mosaics in the apse are late Roman art. They date from around the end of the 4th century; they are