Carlo Cignani (1628-1719) was an Italian Baroque painter. Events March 1 - writs were issued in February 1628 by Charles I of England that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date. ... // Events January 23 - The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire April 25 - Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe June 10 - Battle of Glen Shiel Prussia conducts Europes first systematic census Miners in Falun, Sweden find an apparently petrified body of Fet-Mats Israelsson in an unused... Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens: dynamic figures spiral down around a void: draperies blow: a whirl of movement lit in a shaft of light, rendered in a free bravura handling of paint In arts, the Baroque (or baroque) is both a period and the style that dominated it. ... A painter is a person who paints woodwork, walls, etc. ...

He was born in Bologna to a noble family. In Bologna, he studied first under Battista Cairo and later under Francesco Albani, with whom he remained closely allied and his most famous disciple. He was, however, also strongly and deeply influenced by the genius of Correggio. For instance, his Assumption of the Virgin, around the cupola of the church of the Madonna della Fuoca at Forli, is inspired from the more renowned fresco of Correggio in the cupola of the cathedral of Parma. This painting, which occupied Cignani for some twenty years, is perhaps his most famous. Bologna (from Latin Bononia, BulÃ¥ggna in the local dialect) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, between the Po River and the Apennines. ... Francesco Albani, or (Albano) (August 17, 1578 - October 4, 1660), Italian painter, was born at Bologna. ... Correggio is the name of a town in Italy and of a famous painter who was born there. ... Forlì (44°13′ N 12°02′ E)is a city in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. ...

Cignani had some of the defects of his masters: his elaborate finish and his audacious artificiality in the use of color and in composition mark Albani's influence. Despite that, he imparted to his work a more intellectual character than either of his models, and is not without other remarkable merits of his own. As a man Cignani was eminently amiable, unassuming and generous. His success, however, made him many enemies; and the envy of some of these is said to have impelled them to deface certain of his works.

He accepted none of the honors offered him by the duke of Parma and other princes, but lived and died an artist. On his removal to Forli, where he died, members of the school he had founded at Bologna considered following him. His most famous pictures, in addition to the Assumption already cited, are the Entry of Paul III into Bologna; the Francois I Touching for Kings Evil; a Power of Love, painted under a fine ceiling by Agostino Carracci, on the walls of a room in the ducal palace at Parma; an Adam and Eve (at the Hague); and two of Joseph and Potiphars Wife (at Dresden and Copenhagen). The Duchy of Parma was a small Italian state between 1545 and 1802, and again from 1814 to 1860. ... Categories: People stubs | 1557 births | 1602 deaths | Italian painters ... Arms of The Hague The Hague (with capital T; Dutch: Den Haag, or officially s-Gravenhage) is the administrative capital of the Netherlands, located in the west of the country, in the province South Holland of which it is also the capital. ...

His son Felice Cignani (1660-1724) and nephew Paolo Cignani (1709-1764) were also painters.

Anthology of Works

• Magdalen (Dulwich Picture Gallery) [1]
• Joseph and Potiphar's Wife, (Gemaldegallerei, Dresden) [2]
• Joseph and Potiphar's Wife, (Musee Fesch, Ajaccio) [3]
• Charity (San Francisco Museum of Art) [4]

References

• This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain.