Born in
Castel del Piano, now known as
Province of Grosseto, Giuseppe was the son of the painter
Francesco Nasini and was one of the Tuscan pupils in the Medici-patronized Grand-Ducal Academy for the Arts located in Rome and directed by
Ciro Ferri from 1673 to 1986. He was also sponsored in Rome by Agostino Chigi. From 1679 to 1680, Nasini completed over a dozen portraits of Chigi's family; some are copies of paintings by
Jacob Ferdinand Voet and
Alessandro Mattia da Farnese. On October 15, 1680, his paintings of the
Judgement of Solomon and
Elias meets a child and widow was awarded second prize for design in the first class of painting at the Accademia di San Luca contest. In July 1681, he completed a
St Peter of Alcantara for the church in the
Villa Medicea L'Ambrogiana, near Montelupo Fiorentino Nasini returned to
Florence by 1685. During the reign of
Cosimo III de' Medici, Nasini and
Giuseppe Tonelli were commissioned to fresco an
Allegory of the moral and religious virtues of the Medici for the ceiling of the gallery of the
Uffizi that overlooks the river Arno. In 1691, he completed frescoes for the Compagnia di San Luca (painter's guild) in the church of
Carmine in Florence, and two ceilings in the
Palazzo Medici Riccardi depicting
Jove unleashes thunderbolts and
Hercules and Giants. He also frescoes for the Landi Chapel in the church of the Carmine. He painted a fresco of the
Allegory of Reason (1694) for the palazzo Tolomei-Biffi in Florence. In 1720, he returned to Rome, where he painted in the church of the
Santi Apostoli, the
Quirinal Palace, and one of the nave paintings in
San Giovanni in Laterano. In
Foligno, he painted a
San Leonardo for the church of the Madonna del Pianto. For the Chapel of the Madonna inside the church of
Santa Maria della Scala of
Siena, along with his son Apollonio, he painted a series of paintings consisting of large canvases portraying scenes from the
Life of the Virgin, including the
Birth of the Virgin, the
Presentation in the Temple, and the
Flight into Egypt, as well as frescoes depicting the
Coronation of the Virgin and the
Virgin crowned by the Trinity with angels upholding instruments of the Passion. Giuseppe's brother,
Antonio Nasini and son Apollonio Nasini were also painters. Appollonio and his father helped fresco the ceiling of the small oratory of
San Gaetano di Thiene, Siena. He died in
Siena, aged 79. ==Gallery==