Giambettino Cignaroli

Gianbettino Cignaroli, sometimes Giambettino, ( born July 4, 1706 Verona, † December 1, 1770 ) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque in Northern Italy.

Cignaroli was the only child of Leonardo Cignaroli and pink Lugiati, but had from the second marriage of his father six half-siblings, two of whom were painters, Gian Domenico (1722-1793) and Giuseppe Cignaroli (Fra Felice, 1727-1796 ), and a sculptor ( Diomiro Cignaroli, 1718-1803 ). He studied rhetoric, literature and poetry, and was a pupil of Santo Antonio Balestra Prunato and as a painter. He painted mostly religious motifs (such as Virgin and Child ). For the imperial governor of Lombardy Karl Joseph von Firmian he painted two paintings with antique motifs ( death of Cato in 1759, Death of Socrates ). Even otherwise, he was highly esteemed by his contemporaries - Emperor Joseph II to have said to have seen in Verona two celebrities, the amphitheater and the first painters in Europe.

According to Nagler, he was known in his paintings for the installation of angels jokes. He painted for many princes, but did not follow any invitation to their courts. Nevertheless, its prices were those of a court painter. For health reasons, he did not paint frescoes (except for the house of the Labia in Venice when he was young ).

He also wrote memoirs, published in 1771 by P. Ippolita Belivacqua dell ' Oratorio and 1772 under his own name.