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| Guido Nincheri…
An art exhibit will be held at the Chateau Dufrense
Museum, 2929 Jeanne D’Arc corner Sherbrooke starting January 27, 2010
from 10:00 -17:00 every week, Wednesdays to Sunday. Guido Nincheri (1885
– 1 March 1973) was a Canadian artist working mainly in stained glass
and fresco. 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 Opera House. Nincheri designed the interior decoration of
many Catholic churches across Canada and New England, including Saint-Viateur
d'Outremont and St-Léon-de-Westmount (a Canadian cultural heritage
site). 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][1], West Warwick, RI. His secular work includes the Roger Williams
Park Natural History Museum in Providence, Rhode Island and the Chateau
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 Vancouver's Holy Rosary
Cathedral was featured on a Canadian Christmas 45-cent postage stamp in
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