Nicola Casissa

Nicola Casissa (active early 18th-century, died 1731) was an Italian painter, active in Campania and Naples as a painter of still-life scenes of fruits, flowers, and birds.

He was a pupil of Andrea Belvedere. A number of this paintings were in the 1714 inventory of Duke Nicola Coppola of Canzano.[1] Among his pupils are Leonardo Coccorante[2] and Giorgio Garri.[3]

References
  1. Museo d'Arco, Mantua, biography by Angela Tecce.
  2. Le belle arti, Volumes 1-2, By Giovanni Battista Gennaro Grossi, Tipografia del Giornale Enciclopedico, Strada del Salvadore a Sant'Angelo a Nilo #48, Naples (1820); page 198.
  3. Giorgio Garri un artista da conoscere, article in Napoli.com by Achille della Ragione, Anno XVII - N°32 - 1 February 2019.


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