Guido Nincheri

Guido Nincheri
Guido Nincheri
Born	1885; Prato, Italy
Died	1 March 1973
Nationality	Canadian
Field	stained glass and fresco artist
Training	Florence

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Guido Nincheri (1885 – 1 March 1973) was a Canadian artist working mainly in stained glass and fresco.

[edit] Biography

Born in Prato, Italy, he studied art in Florence and immigrated to Montreal in 1915 after a short stay in Boston where he decorated the Boston Opera House.

Nincheri designed the interior decoration of many Catholic churches across Canada and New England, including Saint-Viateur d'Outremont and Saint-Léon de Westmount Church (a National Historic Site of Canada). He not only executed frescoes and stained glass, but also designed a number of churches, including St. Anthony of Padua in Ottawa and the Church of the Madonna della Difesa in Montreal, which is famous for its fresco depicting Benito Mussolini on horseback among a group of the faithful. In the United States many of his works are found in the Franco-American Catholic Churches of the Providence Diocese in Rhode Island. Three of his largest works are in the Church of Christ the King, West Warwick, RI. His secular work includes the Roger Williams Park Museum of Natural History and Planetarium in Providence, Rhode Island and the Château Dufresne in Montreal.

In addition to the churches mentioned above, his frescoes can be seen in St Ann's Church in Woonsocket, Rhode Island; Ste. Amélie in Baie-Comeau, Quebec; St. Theresa of the Child Jesus in Ottawa; St. Michael's and St. Anthony's in Montreal; the Chapel of the Saints-Noms-de-Jésus-et-de-Marie Mother House in Montreal.

Nincheri executed an estimated 2000 stained glass windows in about 100 different churches in Quebec, Ontario, the Maritimes, British Columbia and New England. One of his stained glass windows from Holy Rosary Cathedral (Vancouver) was featured on a Canadian Christmas 45-cent postage stamp in 1997.

[edit] Awards and Honors

For his work at the Roger Williams Park Museum, which was donated without charge, the city of Providence named Nincheri an honorary citizen. The Italian government also knighted him in 1972.