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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. Among his pupils are Leonardo Coccorante and Giorgio Garri.

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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