Born 1699 in Venice, died there in 1763. Nogari studied first with Antonio Balestra, then with Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. He was active in Milan, between 1740 and 1742 he painted in Turin for King Charles Emmanuel III of Savoy. In 1756 he was among the founders of the painting academy in Venice, and in 1762 and 1763 its president. Numerous paintings with religious and secular motifs by Nogari are known; but his reputation is based above all on the fantasy or “after nature” waist-length figures and heads after Dutch and Flemish models, which are presented in a pleasant academic style.
Lit.: Rodolfo Pallucchini: La pittura veneziana del Settecento, Venezia-Roma 1970; Settecento, Vol. I-II, Milano 1990 (Text: Fernando Rigon; Renato Roli); Rodolfo Pallucchini: La pittura nel Veneto; Il Settecento, Milano 1994, p. 570 sqs.