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Nicola Consoni (Ceprano in the Province of Frosinone in the region of Lazio 1814 – Rome 1884) was an Italian painter mainly of sacred and historic subjects.In Perugia he was a pupil of Giovanni Sanguinetti at the Academy but then moved to Rome and joined the studio of Tommaso Minardi and later Pio Joris. In Rome he was commissioned by Pope Pius IX to fresco some of the second story loggie of the Vatican Palace and the Vatican library. The frescoes depict scenes from the New Testament.