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This article presents an in-depth analysis of the unpublished will of the painter Giuseppe Nogari (1699-1763), which was found at the Archivio di Stato in Venice. Drawn up shortly before the artist's death, on 2nd June 1763, when Nogari was appointed as President of the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, this document contains valuable information on the last commissions received by the painter, as well as useful indications on the composition of his family and on the works of art and other objects that were in his study and in his home at the time of his death. The transcription of the text gives us the opportunity to identify the painters Pietro Roselli and Davide Antonio Fossati as the commissioners of Nogari's testament, and to shed new light on his late activity, showing that he was busy working on various commissions which he had received from private patrons, as well as from the friars of the minor convent and from the Academy. It also confirms that Nogari kept in his studio several works that he used as iconographic sources: portraits, religious scenes, one sketch by Luca Giordano and numerous engravings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]